Two Lovers: All Your Choices Are Bad Ones

By Chris Barsanti

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. [12 February 2009]

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Two Lovers

By Alistair Dickinson

Joaquin Phoenix’s last movie? Maybe. One of his career’s best performances? Absolutely. [6 August 2009]

Two Lovers

By Cynthia Fuchs

A wall of family photos, glimpsed briefly in an early scene of Two Lovers, lays out Leonard's too conventional dilemma. [16 February 2009]

We Own the Night

By Cynthia Fuchs

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. [12 October 2007]

The Yards (2000)

By Cynthia Fuchs

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. [1 January 1995]