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Thursday, January 24,2013
You’ll need a Haneke
'Amour' will ruin you
Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) love the shit out of each other. Now in their 80s, the couple is affluent, cultured and about to stare into the abyss. One day, over breakfast, Anne stops communicating normally.
Thursday, January 24,2013
White people nearly died
'The Impossible' and the hierarchy of suffering
How deplorable are we as a people that the most palatable story we found attractive enough to tell stars the pasty Ewan McGregor and the quasi-translucent Naomi Watts? And as if it wasn’t enough to focus a story set in this maelstrom of human...
Thursday, January 17,2013
Where you been, Laden?
'Zero Dark Thirty' asks a good question
That members of the U.S. Senate have spent more time discussing the fictional depiction of torture in Zero Dark Thirty than they spent discussing the actual torture the military was performing in the wake of 9/11 is yet more proof that “Congress” is the opposite of “progress.”
Thursday, January 17,2013
Les swing and les miss
'Les Misérables' is the nail in the coffin
Two minutes in: You can do this, Ryan. Sure, a three-hour film version of a Broadway musical is a dry way to waterboard you, but people say Les Misérables is the best adaptation yet. Maybe this is the one that finally changes your mind. Five minutes in: Nope. This is my personal hell.
Thursday, January 10,2013
Cotillard’s coattails
‘Rust and Bone’ hops a ride on Marion’s talent
Given that France is America’s go-to national punching bag for milquetoast xenophobic jokes, it is a testimony to her towering talent that Marion Cotillard is an Oscar-winning box office draw.
Thursday, January 10,2013
Sherlock Homeless
‘Jack Reacher’ is one smart drifter
Jack Reacher, the hero of Jack Reacher (in case you were confused), is a drifter with nothing to lose. We know this because that is exactly what Tom Cruise says he is while yelling at a bad guy on the phone, Taken-style.
Thursday, January 3,2013
Antebellum antiheroism
‘Django Unchained’ is awesome and complicated
Oh, Quentin Tarantino, you’ve really done it this time, haven’t you?
Thursday, December 27,2012
2012, will you marry me?
This year’s best movies were so good, you guys...
I want the 2012 year-in-film to have my babies. Heck, I’ll have its babies; it has been so durn good I’d totally go seahorse for it.
Thursday, December 27,2012
Poor 2013: Films in the coming year
Listen, 2013, you look cool. You really do, with your new Superman movie and lack of Twilight. It’s just, well, your older sibling (2012) was super crazy awesome.
Thursday, December 20,2012
Dwarfing expectations
‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ is expectedly awesome
We are masters of cynicism, proudly sporting a black belt in backlash. If this generation of critics, pseudo-critics and armchair-article-writing audience members given the bully pulpit of social media has any legacy, it will be bitching for bitching’s sake.
