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March 26, 2010
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008)
Marketed as a ground-level monster movie, Cloverfield fails at its every opportunity: a high-concept stretched to the running time.
April 20, 2010
Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer, 2006)
Held together almost entirely by the strength of Gyllenhall’s performance, Sherrybaby is one of the best independent movies of the decade.
March 22, 2010
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, 1974)
It was a pleasant surprise to see Alice doesn’t live here anymore. Is it a feminist film? Can a male filmmaker look at a woman through a female perspective?
March 29, 2010
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007)
Michael Clayton suffers from its intellectualism, just as Syriana (Stephen Gaghan, 2005) did, and never lets you connect to the stakes emotionally.
March 29, 2010
Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike, 2007)
Sukiyaki Western Django virtuously evokes in its narrative Sergio Leone westerns, samurai films and Japanese classic films like Yojimbo.
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