Friday, January 8 2010
Everything in its Right Place: The Best Female Acting Performances of 2009
Mazur checks out the year's best female acting and offers up a mostly alternative opinion to the boring Oscar-begging consensus picks including some you might not have heard about, yet.
Friday, May 18 2007
The Natural (1984)
What could have been a magnificent comment on this patriotic pastime unfortunately turns in to an emotionally manipulative barrage of iconic imagery.
Friday, September 1 2006
The Sentinel (2006)
A woefully timid, allegedly paranoid, political thriller short on thrills, shorter on paranoia, and shortest on politics.
The Sentinel (2006)
The Sentinel thus sets up a conflict between two exceptionally earnest masculine icons -- Kiefer Sutherland and Michael DOuglas -- all furrowed brows and low-talking intensity.
Friday, April 21 2006
The Sentinel (2006)
I suppose if you're going to cast the deliriously overexposed Eva Longoria -- and give her a weapon, to boot -- you might as well make fun of the fact that you've done so.
Thursday, July 15 2004
The Door in the Floor (2004)
Mimi Rogers plays a John Irving trademark, the self-hating and much humiliated woman as wholly irritating 'comic' device.
Monday, November 17 2003
Cool World (1992)
The doodles are all bulbous heads, puckered lips and low-slung Cro-Magnon shoulders.
Thursday, May 15 2003
People I Know (2003)
It's a tribute to Pacino's skill as an actor that, although we pity Eli, we also understand his fatigue.
