All posts tagged "Crime"
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LITTLE WOODS – Review
“Welcome to Hard Times”. That’s the name of a classic Western flick from over fifty years ago. But...
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ASH IS PUREST WHITE – Review
A searing epic of a gangster couple’s romance set against a backdrop of a changing China spanning near...
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DESTROYER – Review
This is not how we are used to seeing Nicole Kidman. Kidman plays snarling, violent, even grizzled...
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SHOPLIFTERS – Review
Once again a lauded international filmmaker is taking an unfiltered look at family life. You might think that...
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CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? – Review
In CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, Melissa McCarthy gives a stunning dramatic performance in the strange but true...
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AMERICAN ANIMALS – Review
AMERICAN ANIMALS opens with a screen showing the familiar words “this is based on a true story” but...
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YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE – Review
Joaquin Phoenix plays a traumatized veteran who has built a career out of tracking down and saving missing...
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THE SNOWMAN – Review
Director Tomas Alfredson helmed a pair of outstanding films, the gripping ground-breaking Swedish vampire film LET THE RIGHT...
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THE DINNER – Review
Richard Gere stars as Stan Lohman, a congressman running for governor, who invites his brother Paul (Steve Coogan)...
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THE WANNABE – The Review
It’s rare that I find myself questioning the judgement of Martin Scorsese, but after having seen THE WANNABE,...
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BLACK SOULS – The Review
Like many genre films, the category of mafia films is often branded with certain expectations. Granted, not all...
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WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS. JAMES J. BULGER – The Review
It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a decent real-life career criminal to ogle over in the...
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ROB THE MOB – The Review
There are many ways a person can commit suicide, quick and easy or long and slow, but the...
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GRACELAND — The Review
Drafthouse Films does it again, scouring, quite literally, the entire planet for the very best films otherwise virtually...
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SLEEPNESS NIGHT – Fantastic Fest Review
SLEEPLESS NIGHT is a fitting title for Frederic Jardin’s adrenaline-pumping film about a detective and father who puts...
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DRIVE – The Review
Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE is simply perfect. Not since Michael Mann’s 1981 crime drama THIEF, has a film...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: CAT CITY
Nick (Julian Sands) is a dirty, dirty businessman. He is a very wealthy man who has been cheating...
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Review: ‘Breaking and Entering’ on DVD
The majority of popular films are based in fantasy. Filmgoers like to escape from reality and their own...
