Archive for March, 2007
The Lookout
March 30th, 2007 by Cinema Blend Movie ReviewsSyndicated Reviews
Levitts performance is quite brilliant not the kind of thing youd expect from a kid who grew up playing an alien on 3rd Rock From the Sun, but its Scott Franks commitment to use Chriss condition as a catalyst and not as a definition of the character that makes IThe LookoutI an early contender to be one of the best pictures of 2007. But Ive gotten my sequencing out of order. I really should start at the beginning, not the...
Movie Review | ‘The Lookout’: Higher Self-Esteem Through Robbery
March 30th, 2007 by MATT ZOLLER SEITZSyndicated Reviews
“The Lookout†is a new version of a very old story: A nobody falls in with scuzzball crooks who make him feel like...
Movie Review | ‘After the Wedding’: Shifty Wedding Crashers: Secrets From the Past
March 30th, 2007 by MANOHLA DARGISSyndicated Reviews
“After the Wedding†is a modern creation with a classic theme involving haves and have-nots, bloodlines and family...
Movie Review | ‘The Hawk Is Dying’: Crumpled Manhood Revisited
March 30th, 2007 by JEANNETTE CATSOULISSyndicated Reviews
Imagine an entire film infected with hangdog sensibility, unrelieved by humor or narrative interest, and you have “The Hawk Is...
Movie Review | ‘Sacco and Vanzetti’: From Immigration to Anarchy
March 29th, 2007 by MATT ZOLLER SEITZSyndicated Reviews
The meat-and-potatoes style of “Sacco and Vanzetti†seems less a failure of imagination than a means of putting in the foreground its intriguing subject...