Wednesday, March 2 2011
‘The American’ Is a Thoughtful, Deceptively Spare Work Rife with Political Intrigues
Jack is hardly the protypical "Ugly American", but he is an "American", with all that that signifies to the skeptical Left.
Monday, August 25 2008
He’s Lost Control
The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis.
Monday, November 12 2007
Control
What could have easily ended up as a humorless exercise in hipster excess turns out warm and snappy.
Wednesday, November 7 2007
Control
Despite occasional strange and impossibly intimate reveries, the film lapses frequently into biopickish shorthand.



































