Film
In Third Person , the characters are so intentionally mysterious that, oddly, the surfeit of enigma denies them any depth of personality.
Read MoreBegin Again is a film with considerable flaws and strengths. The later include stellar performances by Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener, and Hailee Steinfeld.
Read MoreThe haughty, witty Gore Vidal, my role model, was never happier than when going against the madding American populace.
Read MoreLift explores so many divergent issues that it would have been easy for the filmmakers to only give lip service to problems it raises. Thankfully, that is not the case.
Read MoreEven given the over-the-top wish-fullfillment of the film’s plot, Escapement’s weak dialogue and lack of subtlety proves to be its ultimate undoing.
Read MoreThe Grand Seduction has some mawkish moments, but it’s still a very sweet movie, skillfully made and charmingly told.
Alive Inside, the winner for Best Documentary at the Festival, had the audience gasping and in tears.
Read MoreWhat’s not to adore about this super-friendly, hedonistic, 24-hour street party, what summer resident John Waters celebrates as “a gay fishing village,” and what I might label, oxymoronically, a “queer New Orleans.”
Read MoreThe beauty of this documentary is that even as it makes you laugh, the story’s essential sadness remains. Though it is very fast-paced, the film makes you stop and think — it’s as unsettling as it is charming.
Read MoreBy the end of the documentary, you’re in no doubt that Whitey Bulger was beneath dignity. Though not in his own eyes. There’s even vanity left in a crook who trims his white beard so scrupulously.
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Arts Commentary: Rich in Creativity — But Nothing Else