Friday, February 6 2009
Taken: Daddy Tortures Best
Mill's towering righteousness is just too much for this weak little film, whose only interest is in affirming the white patriarchal prerogative.
Friday, January 30 2009
Taken
The melodramatic set-up takes little time in Pierre Morel's extra-actionated thriller. Almost as soon as Kimmie lands in Paris and neglects to call her father on the super-phone he's provided her, she's punished -- severely.
Friday, September 28 2007
The Jane Austen Book Club
The movie abandons any aspiration to Austen's wit or social critique, and lapses instead into total triteness.
Tuesday, October 18 2005
The Fog (2005)
As usual, the child is the one with a clue; as soon as Andy sees the digital fog rolling in, his eyes go wide and he murmurs, 'It wants us.'"
