Thursday, March 13 2008
Death at a Funeral
An everyman nucleus surrounded by idiosyncratic grotesques, grounded in a simple plot of the everyman reconciling the irrationality surrounding him, tangential and irrelevant comedic asides.
Friday, August 17 2007
Death at a Funeral
Bodies show up everywhere they shouldn't, making public what usually remains repressed: death, defecation, desire.
Thursday, May 19 2005
William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (2004)
Pacino contains Shylock's temper as reaction, looking simultaneously vile and vulnerable, hardly a simple balance.
Thursday, November 13 2003
Love Actually (2003)
On occasion, the film allows a jaded sensibility to worm its way into this otherwise picturesque world.
Thursday, September 26 2002
The Four Feathers (2002)
It's alarmingly short-sighted fiction, offering only occasional glimpses of the imperial project's fundamental viciousness and ignorance.
