AMERICAN SNIPER * * *
Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Keir O’Donnell, Luke Grimes and Sammy Sheik. Screenplay by Jason Hall. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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BLACKHAT
BLACKHAT * * * 1 / 2
Starring Chris Hemsworth, Wei Tang, Leehom Wang, Holt McCallany and Viola Davis. Screenplay by Morgan Davis Foehl. Directed by Michael Mann.
GIUSEPPE MAKES A MOVIE
“I’m not sure I’d ever want to sit through one of Andrews’ movies — though it uncharitably crossed my mind more than once that they look roughly as professional as Joe Swanberg pictures and are probably way more interesting — but watching him make one is an unexpectedly lovely experience. There’s a real generosity of spirit behind these scenes.” – Movie Mezzanine, 01/15/2015
STILL ALICE
“A shitty part of life is that we all eventually learn to accept that our bodies will someday betray us, but the mind is a different matter. Losing physical ability is sadly inevitable, losing comprehension is the stuff of nightmares. Moore does an expectedly outstanding job conveying Alice’s slow drift. Confusion gives way to helplessness, and then terrible fear.” – Movie Mezzanine, 01/15/2015
TAKEN 3
TAKEN 3 *
Starring Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace, Dougray Scott and Famke Janssen. Written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. Directed by Olivier Megaton.
WILD
“Wild is a movie about the voices rattling around inside in your head when you’re all alone. It jumps back and forth in time bringing up every embarrassing moment you’d rather not remember and then grinds them all out in a physically punishing present-tense context. It’s only out here in the middle of nowhere that Cheryl figures out who she was, and who she is.” – North Shore Movies, 01/02/2015
INHERENT VICE
INHERENT VICE * * * *
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson and Reese Witherspoon. Written for the screen and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
“This is a film of uncommon emotional directness, of simple truths presented unadorned. The Dardenne brothers have been cranking out one small-scaled social realist triumph after another with such clockwork regularity, it’s hard sometimes not to take them for granted, i.e. this being their first masterpiece since the last one.” – Movie Mezzanine, 12/23/2014
ANNIE
“I’m sad to report that Annie is fucking terrible. It’s listless and incompetently staged, the talented cast gasping away in a hermetic vacuum of dead air, snarky in-jokes, and limp musical numbers. The choreography is all flailing arms and rictus grins, running around in circles instead of actual dancing. I honestly started to feel sorry for these performers.” – Movie Mezzanine, 12/18/2014
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
“Otto stumbles his way through raunchy mishaps of the suddenly single. He’s comically overwhelmed by all the no-strings hookups available to handsome, unattached guys his age now that everybody’s on the Internet. The movie might be overstating these a bit, and if it isn’t, then I’m moving to North Carolina.” – Movie Mezzanine, 12/17/2014
