Neil LaBute starts his latest film, THE SHAPE OF THINGS, off with a sly dig at what the story is going to be about. His stars are not given character names in the credits, they’re listed as “actress” or “actor” in much the same way that credits traditionally list “director” or “writer”, both of which… Read More »
MR. DEATH
There is a nagging question at the heart of Errol Morris’ latest meditation on the foibles of humanity, MR DEATH. Do we use facts to make up our minds about things, or do we find facts that confirm what he already want to believe? And, more importantly, why do we choose to believe what we… Read More »
LEVITY
Ed Solomon wrote the scripts for MEN IN BLACK and BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. He’s not the guy from whom you’d expect a serious, thoughtful, even intriguing script that wrestles with the theological and philosophical questions of redemption. And yet, with LEVITY, his directorial debut, that’s just what he’s done. The protagonist is Manual, with… Read More »
CITY OF GHOSTS
I can’t quite shake the feeling that lurking somewhere in Matt Dillon’s CITY OF GHOSTS, there?s a pretty good movie trying to get out. It’s not unlike a block of raw marble that harbors within it perhaps not La Pieta, but something that wouldn’t look out of place in the outer galleries of a mid-sized… Read More »
DADDY DAY CARE
At one point in DADDY DAY CARE, a character competing for the pre-school business in a prosperous suburb says that she cant compete with fun. That could well be the theme of this movie. After a promising opening the flick quickly devolves into a formula piece whose only surprise is that Eddie Murphy, giving his… Read More »
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
A woman rises naked from the bed of her lover, dresses, walks outside and up the stairs of her duplex to spend the rest of the night, platonically, with another man. With that opening sequence of CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES, Eric Byler engages his audience from the first frame of film in a way that is irresistible.… Read More »
DOWN WITH LOVE
DOWN WITH LOVE is a sweet little muddle buoyed along by its effervescence and its unflagging cheer. Its hard to dislike, no matter how much you want to, no matter how much you should. Like last years FAR FROM HEAVEN, though not in the same league, this is an homage to an earlier style of… Read More »
FINDING NEMO
After seeing FINDING NEMO, you just gotta ask yourself, is Pixar capable of making a bad film? Or even a mediocre one? Whether a serendipitous confluence of talent or a sign that there is some divine being at work in our world, either way, the answer, I think, must be no. There is a touch… Read More »
CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS
Beyond the riveting look at a family falling apart under the weight of its own emotional baggage, CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS explores the elusive nature of truth. By the end, far from establishing what is and isn’t true, we are left with the unsettling realization that what is real at any given moment for one person… Read More »
MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING
I love Cinderella stories and MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING qualifies for a couple of reasons. First of all, its the story of an ugly duckling, played by its writer Nia Vardalos, who morphs into the princess bride. Second, its a sweet little indie that beat the odds and an all-but non-existent advertising budget to… Read More »
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