Columns
Thursday, February 12 2009
Two Lovers: All Your Choices Are Bad Ones
What James Gray bravely does in Two Lovers is return the idea of pain, and the threat of bad decisions, to the American film romance.
Reviews
Thursday, August 6 2009
Two Lovers
Joaquin Phoenix’s last movie? Maybe. One of his career’s best performances? Absolutely.
Monday, February 16 2009
Two Lovers
A wall of family photos, glimpsed briefly in an early scene of Two Lovers, lays out Leonard's too conventional dilemma.
Friday, October 12 2007
We Own the Night
You can see -- though the brothers take a few more scenes to catch up -- that each envies the other: Joe wants Bobby's seeming independence, Bobby wants daddy's approval.
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Yards (2000)
In 'The Yards', Mark Wahlberg again plays an emotionally damaged young tough, but this time his entire environment is orchestrated to reflect that character, dark, sad, and heavy with non-options.
