By Rex Reed 3/07 11:44am

movies

Silent House: Elizabeth Olsen’s Strong Performance Muted by Silent, Voiceless Narrative

Look hard and you might find a few thrills in a potboiler called Silent House, but I was fighting too hard to stay awake to pay much attention. This mess, a remake of a Uruguayan film directed by Gustavo Hernández, was concocted by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, the duo who made the electrifying Open Water, one of the most original and genuinely pulse-pounding movies ever. With only two stranded divers and a shark-filled ocean of darkness, it was a tapestry of terror that has given me nightmares to this day. Silent House is to Open Water what a leaky faucet is to Lake Michigan. Read More

By Noelle Hancock and Jake Brooks 8/09/04 12:00am

Bigmouth Strikes Again

A few dozen passengers were settling into their seats in the

Quiet Car of the Acela Regional Express as it rolled out of Boston’s South

Station on Friday, July 30, when a slightly rumpled guy boarded the train, a

Democratic National Convention credential still slung around his neck.

The man began talking-quite loudly-about Senator Read More

By Rex Reed 8/02/04 12:00am

No Lifeguards In This Water

Hair-raising! Nerve-frying! Gut-wrenching! Open Water is a new film that makes you reach for all the obvious descriptive adjectives in an impossible attempt to describe its shock effects. It deserves them all. As vacation time nears and every New Yorker I know heads out of town to get as far away from Republican convention gridlock Read More