Ostensible remake and update of Charade, but really more of a private party thrown by director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, etc.), who uses the date and place of the Stanley Donen original -- 1963, Paris -- to rationalize a French New Wave theme for the party: …
If the Screenvision pre-show exchange of deadpan drollery between stars Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg is any indication, these two boys are god's gift to their chosen profession. Pretty cocky for what appears to be yet another run for the paycheck through the land of cookie-cutter action. Credit director Ruben …
The 20th Century Fox fanfare (with CinemaScope addendum) is performed on jungle drums and didgeridoo. Sometimes, a film earns points even before the opening credits hit the screen; other times, a variation on a studio logo is as avant garde as it gets. War's two predecessors handily proved the gimmick …
The old story, with new operatic embellishment, of brothers on opposite sides of the law (Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix), plus a father firmly on the lawful side (Robert Duvall), and Russian drug dealers so ruthless and repugnant as to straighten out the bent brother. All pretty obvious and overstated, although …
Modestly budgeted little crime film traces the well-worn path of the ex-con who wants to go straight but who veers off under bad influence -- in this case into the unsexy world of corruption in the commuter-rail industry around New York City: bribery, kickbacks, intimidation, and, when necessary, rougher stuff. …