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Yes, my Best of 2015 movie list is a little late. But I wrote it anyway because I hope you seek out these movies, if you haven’t enjoyed …
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There’s a nobility in facing the end with no way out. That’s the gist of Aristotle’s defense of Tragedy in “Poetics.” Compared to those movies before and since, Orson …
Just Because
A few notes: – I had originally intended to post reviews on each of my Top Ten before posting the list. That did not happen since I am still …
Movie Reviews
Michael Mann is not an idea man. That’s Michael Keaton’s Bill in “Night Shift.” Bill is the man distracted to uselessness by his own ideas like eliminating garbage with …
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Bad things happen at night. That’s the impression you get after watching “The Two Faces of January,” a nimble story of betrayal set in Greek cities and ruins where …
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For a 90-minute movie that spends all of its time in a field during daylight hours, you never hear any birds. The absence of avian chirping indicates purpose behind …
Movie Reviews
Before outlining a response to the recent movie adaptation of the musical “Into the Woods,” I want to draw out some general slips in some of the approaches to the …
Classics & Well Aged
There are few movies that have arrested the public’s imagination and exposed a specific fear as thoroughly as Steven Spielberg’s 1975 motion picture, “Jaws.” Ask anyone who saw it …
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Unlike many epic motion pictures, Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” zips forcefully through its narrative, an ambitious retelling of the ark and the great flood that delivers on biblical proportions—cubits, floodwaters, …
DVD Commentary Says
In the director’s commentary on James Gray’s “The Yards,” Gray is joined by Steven Soderbergh who’s there to keep Gray’s obnoxious ego-stroking in check. Though Gray agrees with his …
