Rush
Rating: If you think the competition between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was memorable, at least they didn’t risk death with each game. This is a championship movie about championship sports figures.
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Don Jon
Rating: Who wouldn’t be enticed by a movie centering on pornography and masturbation? I’m listening.
Instructions Not Included
Rating: This is an enchanting film that is as funny as it is meaningful. Sure it is in Spanish, but that’s what Columbus spoke, wasn’t it?
Prisoners
Rating: I cannot remember seeing a film that is so brutally condemnable as Prisoners. Sergio Leone once directed Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and there is nothing… Continue reading
Short Term 12
Rating: This is a film about helping young people too damaged to help themselves. Government has to play a role in that process, and any Tea Party opponents should be ashamed.
The Grandmaster
Rating: A story reliving the majesty of martial-arts while looking at the tragedy that befell China both before and after the Japanese invasion from 1938 through 1945.
The Spectacular Now
Rating: Shallene Woodley is as unforgettable here as she was in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants (2011), and she reminds everyone that the key to being 18 is not to lose focus.
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Rating: How can we criticize anyone in the world with our brutal history of racial prejudice in our own country?
Blue Jasmine
Rating: Blue Jasmine is a film that treats human depression as an attribute. While there is no one you will like, did I say there are some spectacular performances?
