FILM REVIEWS
Fast & Furious 6: Thrilling Joyride
Going out of its way to up the ante of the previous chapter, “Fast Five,” “Fast & Furious 6,” also directed by Justin Lin, offers the basic good expected of this flick, but no more. One feels a sense of eagerness (perhaps desperation) to match the fast-paced action, the high adrenaline, the preposterously glorious set-pieces [...]
B-
Inside Llewyn Davis: Top Coens, Cannes Highlight
The multi-nuanced performance of Oscar Isaac, who carries the entire film, should get Best Actor Oscar nomination. In physical appearance, vocal range (he performs his songs) and demeanor, Isaac is so right for the flawed (anti)hero, it’s hard to imagine the saga with him.
A-
Nebraska: From Alexander Payne
Cannes Film Fest 2013 (in competition)–With “Nebraska,” his only sixth feature in a career of two decades, Alexander Payne adds another poignant panel to a body of work that could be described as American regional cinema of lost souls.
B+
Hangover Part III
Is it already time for another “Hangover”? Two years after “The Hangover Part II” (2011), here’s “Part III,” which has been advertised as the finale to this increasingly unfocused series.
C-
Bling Ring, The
Very much a zeitgeist film, “The Bling Ring” is a moral fable and cautionary tale. In its good moments, the film (which is flawed) suggests what it means to be young, ruthless, technically alert, and most important of all, obsessed with achieving fame and celebrity, even if it calls for using illegitimate means.
B
Behind he Candelabra: Liberace Biopic
Artistically speaking, Soderbergh’s biopic of Liberace, “Behind he Candelabra,” is not a particularly significant film but it’s vastly entertaining.
B
PICK OF THE WEEK
Before Midnight: Hawke and Delpie Third Chapter
In BEFORE MIDNIGHT, “They’re still talking, still making each other laugh” says director Richard Linklater about Jesse and Celine, the couple chronicled in Linklater’s earlier films BEFORE SUNRISE (1995) and BEFORE SUNSET (2004). “This time around, we thought the thing we really had to offer was brutal honesty about long term commitments—just how tough it [...]
Redford: America Has been Losing Its Way
Cannes Film Fest 2013–At a press conference today for his new film, “All Is Lost,” Robert Redford claimed that America has been losing its way in the years since the second world war.
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Cannes Film Fest 2013: Salvo Wins Critics Week
Cannes Film Fest 2013–Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s “Salvo” topped the Cannes Film Festival’s 52nd Critics’ Week, taking its Grand Prix and the France 4 Revelation Prize.
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