Talking with fellow Boston Online Film Critics Association members Bob Chipman and Steve Head about this month’s repertory offerings. Topics include Bad Hombres & Nasty Women at the Brattle Theatre, the HFA’s Say It Loud! The Black Cinema Revolution, comic book movies at the Coolidge and that time William Shatner played a white supremacist. – BOFCA, 10/31/2016
CERTAIN WOMEN * * * *
Starring Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Lily Gladstone and Rene Auberjonois. Written for the screen and directed by Kelly Reichardt.
JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK * *
Starring Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Danika Yarosh, Holt McCallany and Patrick Heusinger. Screenplay by Richard Wenk, Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick. Directed by Edward Zwick.
“The series spotlights six new films hand-picked by program director Nancy Campbell and executive director Brian Tamm during their travels to fests around the world. It’s the kind of eclectic mix for which IFFBoston is renowned. ‘These are films that really affected us when we saw them at other festivals, and we’re thrilled to share them with our community.'” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 10/20/2016
AMERICAN HONEY * * 1 / 2
Starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, Arielle Holmes and Will Patton. Written and directed by Andrea Arnold.
“Given what we’ve learned about Nate Parker’s past and his treatment of women, what are we supposed to make of he and Celestin creating an entirely fictional scene in which Parker’s onscreen wife gets raped just so he can spend the rest of the movie nobly avenging her assault? C’mon, you don’t see Mel Gibson trying to play Oskar Schindler.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 10/12/2016
DEEPWATER HORIZON * *
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson, Gina Rodriguez and John Malkovich. Screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand. Directed by Peter Berg.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN * 1 / 2
Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard and Vincent D’Onofrio. Screenplay by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. Directed by Antoine Fuqua.
“I’m a realist and pragmatic, too. I understand the need for security and the need for some of the things that they’re doing, absolutely. I think Ed should be the head of the NSA, if you really want to know the truth. He believes in the defense of the country, but properly organized and controlled. Right now we are out of control.” – Boston Reel, 09/21/2016
SNOWDEN * * *
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Rhys Ifans, Scott Eastwood and Nicolas Cage. Screenplay by Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver Stone. Directed by Oliver Stone.
SPLICED PERSONALITY 