Movie Reviews
The more you know about an event, the more tainted it will get.
The director tries to lose the viewer in a maze of flashbacks-within-flashbacks.
The parallel plotlines take a long time to shed any light on each other.
Manny Farber was a friend of mine before we ever met. I recall exactly how I was introduced. I had read Pauline Kael's jeremiad on Andrew Sarris and the auteur theory, “Circles and Squares,” in …
Movies reviewed this week: Eight Below, Final Destination 3, Firewall, Freedomland and The Pink Panther
Seldom has so small a film created so big a flap. The flap, to be sure, has nothing whatever to do with the film itself, identified on the poster as "another Steven Soderbergh experience," though …
Movies reviewed this week: Caché, Imagine Me and You and Mrs. Henderson Presents
Movies reviewed this week: Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World and Match Point
Movies reviewed this week: Hoodwinked, The New World, Transamerica, and Tristan and Isolde
Movies reviewed this week: Glory Road, Last Holiday, and The White Countess
More and more, I notice myself in the middle of a movie, or in the first ten minutes of a movie, putting the experience to the fundamental test. Am I content to be watching this …