Tuesday, January 13 2009
The Man Who Came Back
The Western meets the plantation melodrama, and neither genre survives the encounter.
Friday, May 16 2008
Alien Agent
Alien Agent becomes so pointless that one longs for the highbrow art of Steven Segal or Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Friday, December 14 2007
Titanic: 10th Anniversary Edition
While it's understandable that after raising one of film history's most massive success stories from the depths of potential financial ruin, Cameron might rest on his laurels a bit, you sometimes get the feeling that he has spent a good chunk of his post-Titanic life still thinking about Titanic.
Friday, March 30 2007
Memory (2005)
Like a high school essay written the night before it's due, Memory reveals its dearth of imagination right off, with a frontispiece dictionary definition of its title.
Monday, June 23 2003
The Believer (2001)
The film's about the human impetus toward contradiction, about our need to exercise those contradictions, to live them.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Hendrix
Survivor's tone is very difficult to locate, and while this elusiveness may be more than the producers intend, it's just as possible to surmise that they know what they're doing and that teasing the audience with its own naivete is their way of undermining the medium even as they exploit it so well.
