“With just a sub-minute moment of catch-up between cast members and a snappy meta quip from Andy Samberg, Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s second season premiere gets off to a brisk start. Admittedly, that zippy through line feels kind of dishonest; morehas to have happened in the six months since Jake parted ways with the gang in “Charges … Continue reading
“No Good Deed promises little, but, to its credit, it largely lives up to that promise. You don’t need to lower your expectations for the film; it lowers them for you, roundly but quietly apologizing at every turn for not being better than it is. Frankly,No Good Deed’s abashed tone is unnecessary, because its biggest … Continue reading
“Love thy neighbor. Turn the other cheek. Keep thine hands up, then clobber thy opponent with a vicious cross before choking him out. That’s the Bible according to the subjects of Daniel Junge’s and Bryan Storkel’s new documentary, Fight Church, although that summary does little justice to the film’s depth of study. This isn’t simply … Continue reading
“From a distance, A Walk Among the Tombstones looks an awful lot like “generic Liam Neeson actioner #1,075″, but that’s only a half-accurate first impression. Oh, Neeson grumbles and sneers, dispassionate to the world around him and ambivalent about his mortality, a stereotypical hard-boiled badass; he’s seen it all, and he cares little about anything that doesn’t tie into the storm … Continue reading
The Green Prince is a story so unlikely that it doesn’t seem like it could possibly be true. But it is, and the central tale of Mosab Hassan Yousef and Gonen Ben-Itzhak is more than just true – it’s inspiring. Here’s what they had to say about participating in a documentary about their real life spy … Continue reading
Eva Green’s role in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For doesn’t require her to wear much clothing, and for some that ends up acting like a punch line, or at least a point of critique, for the entire film. But maybe there’s more purpose to her naked frolicking. Maybe there’s actually a reason that she … Continue reading
“Hardy is the film’s defining element, but he isn’t the only one worth seeing the film for. Roskam directs The Drop to handsome effect, throwing a handful of dazzling compositions in among shots that get the job done; meanwhile, Gandolfini does what Gandolfini does, though this isn’t quite the same farewell as last year’s Enough … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 