1. A good rule of thumb: If you are holding a book in your hands and you notice that someone has gone to the trouble…
To make a list of things I do not understand about Shane Carruth's Upstream Color would be to simply list everything…
For director Danny Boyle, anything worth doing is worth overdoing. With each genre of movie he makes, you get the…
GI Joe: Retaliation is pretty bad. You don't need me to tell you that. It's not completely horrible: There's a cool…
Director Derek Cianfrance's last film, Blue Valentine, was a crushing study of a couple (played by Ryan Gosling and…
If you're going to make a movie where the White House is destroyed and the fate of the American government hangs in…
Admission is such a mess, its good ideas knotted up with its unfocused and bad ones, that even if you end up liking…
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When Casino Royale came out in 2006, it was rightly praised for lots of reasons: Daniel Craig's…
1. Until the last 10 minutes, Flight in large part resembles one of those tough, dark character studies they used to…

In 1995, Quentin Tarantino, skinny, wired, at the absolute peak of his power and influence, showed up at the MTV…