Robert Redford is back, as producer, director and star of The Company You Keep, and he must keep his talent preserved in a drawer with his old socks, because in the noxious ozone of today’s films, he adds some genuine class and intelligence to the amateurishness around us. A firm believer that big-screen entertainment can Read More
New York, I Love You
Running time 110 minutes
Written by Emmanuel Benbihy (concept) and Tristan Carné (premise), and various others
Directed by Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Randall Balsmeyer
Starring Shia LeBeouf, Bradley Cooper, Blake Lively, Julie Read More
Monday: The Bachelorette
We justify watching this show by pretending to be engaged in a sociological experiment: Why is it just so much more weird and squirmy when it’s the woman who has to choose from a bunch of dudes as opposed to some blockhead picking among a gaggle of silicone? We haven’t figured Read More
AWAY FROM HER
Running Time 110 minutes
Written and Directed by Sarah Polley
Starring Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent
The subject of aging, illness and letting go are not mainstream subjects for commercial films, but Away From Her, which marks the feature-film directing debut of popular Canadian actress Sarah Polley, is a Read More
AWAY FROM HER
Running Time 110 minutes
Written and directed by Sarah Polley
Starring Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis
Sarah Polley’s Away From Her, from her own screenplay, based on the short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro, plays out as a wondrously lyrical account of Read More
LONDON–Eat My Handbag, Bitch! is the name of a vintage clothing shop in London’s newly trendified East End. English cheekiness of this genre would normally convulse me with mirth, but I find I am strangely unamused. I have only been here for three days, but I have already OD’d on the relentlessly slaggy hipness that Read More
Day-Lewis K.O.’s Xmas Heavyweights
Instead of traditional year-end salvation, the 1997 Hollywood Santa delivered thistles and burrs. In the explosion of new movies this holiday season, an amazing number of bombs have been dropped that are alarmingly bereft of charm, excitement and commercial appeal. Except for Titanic, Good Will Hunting and As Good as Read More
