“The Boss says that ‘in a record store everybody’s your friend for twenty minutes.’ Hanks fumbles a bit trying to convey the company’s convoluted financial collapse. But All Things Must Pass is something special when it’s conjuring Springsteen’s sentiment, fondly recalling a time when buying music was a communal activity and not just clicking on things.” – Movie Mezzanine, 10/23/2015
“Daldry has no idea how to reconcile the mischievous, boys’ adventure spirit with his needlessly prolonged sequences of police brutality and child abuse. The violence is all out of proportion to the tone of the story, and I daresay I’ve never seen an entire village burnt to the ground to so little affect in a film before. Even the villagers don’t seem to mind.” – Movie Mezzanine, 10/09/2015
THE WALK * * 1 / 2
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale, Steve Valentine and Ben Kingsley. Screenplay by Robert Zemeckis and Christopher Browne. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.
THE INTERN * * *
Starring Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Anders Holm, Andrew Rannells and Rene Russo. Written and directed by Nancy Meyers.
“Short on incident but terribly long on portentous brooding, The Keeping Room feels like 1970’s grindhouse rape-splotiaton fare tarted up with modern prestige picture delusions of grandeur. Substituting dread for suspense, it’s an exceedingly difficult movie to sit through, and offers little reward for doing so.” – Movie Mezzanine, 09/24/2015
“There’s no arc to the story, just bullet-points over two decades. Whitey killed a lot of people and got away with it until he didn’t anymore. The filmmakers have no angle, no larger themes. The depositions haven’t been sculpted into drama. It’s a dull recitation of tired material that will feel like the Stations of the Cross to anyone who reads The Boston Herald.” – Movie Mezzanine, 09/18/2015
“A staggeringly uneventful movie made for an audience to which I obviously do not belong. I’m at a loss to convey how little happens during this picture. It’s a film almost entirely devoid of incident. Piper’s book hasn’t been shaped into anything resembling a story. It’s just unfortunate stuff that happened to a guy and then he got over it, eventually.” – Movie Mezzanine, 09/11/2015
TIME OUT OF MIND * * * 1 / 2
Starring Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone, Kyra Sedgwick and Steve Buscemi. Written and directed by Oren Moverman.
“The film is very much what you would expect from a movie directed by Captain America. It’s old-fashioned, a little corny, and almost impossible to resist. Before We Go isn’t a great picture nor even a particularly memorable one. But the bottom line is that I liked spending time with these people. You probably will, too.” – Movie Mezzanine, 09/04/2015
“It’s a crude scene, and damned effective. The rest of No Escape is just plain crude. It’s also a piece of stupid xenophobic trash, released at a time when another piece of stupid xenophobic trash is surging in the polls for the Republican Presidential nomination, so The Weinstein Company might have a hit on their hands.” – Movie Mezzanine, 08/28/2015
SPLICED PERSONALITY 