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Broken English
Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo
Magnolia, 2007
great movie
+ Perfect for its genre
+ LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!
+ Parker Posey commands attention
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Margot at the Wedding
Zane Pais, Susan Blackwell
Paramount, 2008
Come on...
+ at the wedding
Come on! Does every movie have to be happy and uncomplicated? No. These characters are messy and real. Margot is extreme in the way that certain people in life are. Despite her lips, Nicole Kidman was amazing. Even Jack Black was good as the whiny fiance. Jennifer Jason Leigh was *amazing*, ...
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Igby Goes Down
Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes
MGM (Video & DVD), 2003
A small work of genius
+ One of my favs.
+ Smart and funny
One of the most intelligent analyses of upper-middle class life I have ever seen - dark, funny, beautifully scripted, and above all TRUE.
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Venus
Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips
Miramax, 2007
The tantalizing feminine alluring!
+ Flawless!
+ The Twilight of the Mod
Venus is an emblematic movie that deals with the human condition of a respectable actor, beloved and loved by many women in the past who lives on the verge of the forgetfulness, isolated and imprisoned between his memories (Like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard) ; nevertheless Maurice is still an ...
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Marie Antoinette
Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman
Sony Pictures, 2007
"Do you like it with ruffles or without?"
+ This is NOT your history class!
+ Let them have Marie Antoinette
And such is the third film by Sofia Coppola in which we follow the lives of lost girls trying to find their way in the mismatched worlds they've been thrown into. In Virgin Suicides, there were the Lisbon sisters, strained by suburbia. In Lost in Translation, we had Charlotte, who'd rather ...
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The Lookout
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels
Miramax, 2007
See this movie.
+ Familiar Yet New
I watched The Lookout, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, and Isla Fisher, this week. WOW. Where was the buzz about this film? It came out last year, and I'd honestly hardly heard of it until a few weeks ago.
Chris Pratt (Gordon-Levitt) is a popular high school student. ...
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Winter Passing
Zooey Deschanel, Darrell Larson
20th Century Fox, 2006
Coming home to daddy J. D. Salinger
+ Winter Passing
+ One of the best movies I've seen in years.
+ Underrated
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The Darjeeling Limited
Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody
20th Century Fox, 2008
Cleverly Made With Delightfully Peculiar Characters
+ Lovely Rita, don't play with me aux Champs Elysees...
+ The maturation of Wes Anderson
Not as eccentric as The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou or as dark as The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited falls somewhere in-between and is an entity unto itself. However, make no mistake; this is a Wes Anderson movie through-and-through. In other words, it's well-made and very fun to ...
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King of California
Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood
First Look Pictures, 2008
Review for King of California
+ Nice little film with heartfelt performances
+ Crazy, entertaining but not great...!
A heartwarming comedy with the flavor of a treasure hunting adventure. A young woman's delusional father makes her struggle to hang onto the family home, car, her job, etc. a bigger challenge when he insists he's found and deciphered a coded map for buried treasure. He found the clues while still ...
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Hard Candy
Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page
Lions Gate, 2006
Riveting psychothriller
+ Hard Candy with Ellen Page
+ Not just thrilling... beautifully elegant
There are movies that haunt you and others that keep you guessing; there are horror flicks and daring mind-benders; there are suspense ridden narratives and atypical treaures: Hard candy is all of the above. The terrible intolerable need to continue watching absorbs and terrifies while you seem ...
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Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
Michael Caine, Pam Ferris
Universal Studios, 2007
Stunning
+ A Startling Version of a Dystopian Future
+ This movie is GREAT!
+ children of men
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Brick
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emilie De Ravin
Universal Studios, 2006
This is a very interesting and engaging film
+ Cake and pie, oh my
+ Superb
Brick is a great homage to the noirs of the 40s, but with a modern high school setting. Gordon-Levitt is a brilliant actor, and the rest of the cast is spot on too. The script and camera work are awesome; but the characters and style drive this movie the most. The dialogue is interesting because it ...
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Half Nelson
Ryan Gosling, Jeff Lima
Sony Pictures, 2007
Powerful Performances in One Powerhouse Social Drama
+ Half Nelson Painfully Truthful
The closer you pay attention to HALF NELSON the more you realize how amazingly audacious and profoundly frightening this movie is. One of the driving political notions of the 1960s was the idea that white liberals could and should attempt to save at-risk inner city black youth. Some championed the ...
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Sherrybaby
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ryan Simpkins
IFC Films, 2007
Gyllenhaal, Trejo and the rest drive this raw story
+ Excellent and understated movie with a powerful message
+ "Tell me you love me..."
+ Gyllenhaal is astounding
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The Proposition
Richard Wilson (VII), Noah Taylor
FIRST LOOK PICTURES, 2006
One of the Best Films of the Decade-- A Masterful Stunner!
+ Excellent Australian Western
In the final frame of "The Proposition" there is a contrast between the film's narrative meaning and the meaning behind the film, in which a character asks in their final breath in the last line of dialogue, "What`s next?" When taken into account these themes in the film, one can not help but see ...
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