By Rex Reed 2/29/12 9:31am

movies

Dano's off-screen stare was as sour as his on-screen presence.

Grim Like Flynn: Another Bullshit Night in [Pickled-Faced Paul Dano's] City

Paul Weitz is a writer-director (About a Boy) with talent and imagination. I can’t imagine what lured him to Being Flynn, a depressing and downbeat rendering of a book called Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, the offbeat, commercially challenging 2004 memoir by writer Nick Flynn about his fractured relationship with his creepy father, Jonathan, a failed writer himself, but mostly a Bowery bum and bona fide loser, played by Robert De Niro. Too small and dark to appeal to a large audience, it’s not a movie to cherish. Read More

By John Heilpern 4/17/06 12:00am

Danish Gem Becomes Awful Play- What on Earth Happened?

When I first saw the 1998 Danish film Festen—now at the Music Box Theater in its prestigious play version from London—my excited, immediate reaction was twofold:

On the one hand, I thought the brilliantly unsettling Danish movie might make a great play. This staggering story of a family reunion, I thought, is just what Read More

By John Heilpern 4/17/06 12:00am

Danish Gem Becomes Awful Play— What on Earth Happened?

When I first saw the 1998 Danish film Festen—now at the Music Box Theater in its prestigious play version from London—my excited, immediate reaction was twofold:

On the one hand, I thought the brilliantly unsettling Danish movie might make a great play. This staggering story of a family reunion, I thought, is just what Read More

By Rex Reed 12/20/04 12:00am

Clint Eastwood’s Swanky Knockout

Last week, I wrote that in the largely disappointing year-end movie gridlock, the best was not saved for last. My denouncement was premature. At least three total surprises have suddenly arrived that are intelligent, refreshing, admirable, artistically sound and worthy of the most serious attention. Two of them, Spanglish and In Good Company, are comedies, Read More