Leonardo DiCaprio

Film Review: “Killers of the Flower Moon” — Lethal Snake Oil Salesmen

October 23, 2023

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“Killers of the Flower Moon” is an exercise in kaleidoscopic, cubist storytelling that is, among other things, an epic on the art of the grift.

Film Review: “Don’t Look Up” — A Pitch-Dark Satire that Dares to be Impudently Pessimistic

January 4, 2022

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The knee-jerk, hateful reviews of Don’t Look Up possess comments so outsized, and so beside the point, that they bear a resemblance to the oblivious thinking of the movie’s anti-science ostriches.

Film Review: “The Revenant” — Where Have You Gone, Sam Peckinpah?

January 9, 2016

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The implausibility of The Revenant is jaw-dropping.

Film Review: “The Wolf of Wall Street” — A Brilliant Vision of Greed Unleashed

December 27, 2013

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Bravura performances are provided by all involved, making Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” quite possibly the best film of the year.

Fuse Commentary: Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Kitsch? A Glimpse of Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby

May 26, 2012

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Judging by the trailer for The Great Gatsby, it looks as if director Baz Luhrmann’s habitual excess will overwhelm the lyrical beauty and subtle power of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose.