Reviews
Blessed Movie Review From The Sundance Film Festival
Chronicling 24 hours in the lives of troubled teens, Blessed is a missile of raw emotion.
Good Fences Movie Review
A muddled made-for-cable pic that won the lottery and wound up at 2003 Sundance Film Festival, Good Fences (set to premiere Feb. 2 on Showtime) is a stupefyingly clumsy mix of cartoonish comedy, simplistic satire and borderline hysterical melodrama.
Touch of Evil (re-issue) Movie Review
Amidst a flood of films being foisted upon the public in restored or director's cut versions, Orson Welles' 1958 Touch of Evil is currently being brought back in a state that truly is different from anything anyone has ever seen before. Though not hugely different, new version is sufficiently so in
Disney Channel Premiere Film Nightjohn Movie Review
Title character Nightjohn (played with admirable power by Carl Lumbly), bought by plantation owner Clel Waller (Beau Bridges), moves into the cabin shared by young Sarny (an effective Allison Jones, narrator for the vidpic), who's been raised by strong-willed Delie (Lorraine Toussaint).
Disney Channel Premiere Film Nightjohn Movie Review
Title character Nightjohn (played with admirable power by Carl Lumbly), bought by plantation owner Clel Waller (Beau Bridges), moves into the cabin shared by young Sarny (an effective Allison Jones, narrator for the vidpic), who's been raised by strong-willed Delie (Lorraine Toussaint).
The Interview Movie Review
First-rate performances from Hugo Weaving and Tony Martin distinguish The Interview, a taut, consistently intelligent drama about the grilling of a murder suspect by a tenacious, though flawed, law officer. Basically a three-hander, debut film from director Craig Monahan is a rich cinematic
Here To Where Movie Review
An often amusing low-budgeter about a first-time filmmaker trying to make a documentary in Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, Here to Where reps an interesting debut by former U.K. photog Glen Luchford that would be just fine if cut back to an hour. Ironic character study, poised between fiction and
Menace II Society Movie Review
A grim, nihilistic trip to the inner city is in store for the stout-hearted who enter into New Line's Menace II Society. Fierce, violent and searing in its observation, the film makes previous excursions seem like a stroll through the park.
Le Fils Du Requin Movie Review
Agnes Merlet's impressive first feature (inspired by a newspaper story) is a scary portrait of potentially very violent youngsters who have scarcely reached the age of puberty. Compassionate but unflinching depiction of the abandoned kids' day-to-day existence will probably prove too downbeat to
Schizopolis Movie Review
Some combination of goof, provocation and willfully anarchic eruption, Schizopolis is a satire and critique of modern life so scattershot in its aim and techniques that it misses the mark more often than it hits. A no-budgeter made as a guerrilla project by Steven Soderbergh in Baton Rouge, LA, pic
