Film
Selma doesn’t dare to offer the viewer anything new.
Of all the cinematic indictments of the 1% that have flooded the multiplex in the wake of the financial crisis, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher stands as one of the most understated.
The Imitation Game is a movie that should have made us angry, but it merely makes us sad.
Not since the closing of Boston’s Exeter Street Theatre have so many of Alex Guinness’s classic films been available to be viewed on a local big screen.
Perhaps Top Five is Chris Rock’s penance for doing lucrative-paying voices for the insanely popular Madagascar animation franchise.
In The Gambler, Mark Whalberg gives a performance he should be proud of.
Walter is pure evil. Margaret is pure good. And that is Big Eye‘s undoing.
Wild is a compelling stream-of-consciousness narrative that mirrors how we actually make sense of our life experiences as we have them and then remember them.
Exodus: Gods and Kings is a tribute to those overblown biblical movies of the 1950s, albeit with all the eye-candy trappings that today’s high tech special effects can offer.
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