Director: Malgoska Szumowska | Writers: Tine Byrckel, Malgoska Szumowska | Cast: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | Rating: NC-17 | Runtime: 99 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | If Malgoska Szumowska’s Elles proves one thing, … Continue reading
TOP 20 FILMS OF 2012
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- 1. Oslo, August 31st [Review]
- 2. The Grey [Review]
- 3. The Master [Review]
- 4. Lincoln [Review]
- 5. Amour [Review]
- 6. The Turin Horse [Review]
- 7. Elena [Review]
- 8. Zero Dark Thirty [Review]
- 9. Tabu [Review]
- 10. Beasts of the Southern Wild [Review]
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- 11. The Snowtown Murders
- 12. Flight [Review]
- 13. Magic Mike [Review]
- 14. Holy Motors
- 15. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [Review]
- 16. Rust and Bone [Review]
- 17. The Color Wheel
- 18. Looper [Review]
- 19. On the Road [Review]
- 20. The Loneliest Planet [Review]
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Archive for April 2012
Movie Review: ‘Elles’
Posted on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 5:07 pm by Danny King in the Reviews categoryTrailer for Andrei Zvyagintsev’s ‘Elena’
Posted on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 2:39 am by Danny King in the Videos categoryAndrei Zvyagintsev’s Elena will be receiving a theatrical release — via Zeitgeist Films — beginning on May 16, and this Apple trailer has been concocted in anticipation. I’ve yet to catch up with either of Zvyagintsev’s previous two features — … Continue reading
Poster for Benh Zeitlin’s ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’
Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 5:22 pm by Danny King in the Posters categoryI was fortunate enough to catch a free screening of Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild last night here at NYU, and the pure exhilaration of the experience is still coursing through my viens. Everything you’ve probably heard about … Continue reading
Trailer for Judd Apatow’s ‘This is 40′
Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 5:03 pm by Danny King in the Videos categoryThere are dozens of late-year releases that interest me more than Judd Apatow’s This is 40, and this Apple trailer basically shows why. Leslie Mann lying about her age on official medical documents (which is what all sane 40-year-old women … Continue reading
Trailer for John Hillcoat’s ‘Lawless’
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 8:36 pm by Danny King in the Videos categoryMost people going giddy over the just-announced Cannes debut of Lawless will cite John Hillcoat’s 2005 The Proposition as their principal source of promise, and while that makes complete sense from an atmospheric point of view — the cops-and-robbers storyline … Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘Safe’
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 2:54 pm by Danny King in the Reviews categoryDirector: Boaz Yakin | Writer: Boaz Yakin | Cast: Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon, Jason Statham | Rating: R | Runtime: 94 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | There are moments of bliss in Safe. A subway-set brawl, save for … Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘Detachment’
Posted on Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 6:34 pm by Danny King in the Reviews categoryDirector: Tony Kaye | Writer: Carl Lund | Cast: Adrien Brody, James Caan, Bryan Cranston, Sami Gayle, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, Betty Kaye, Lucy Liu, Tim Blake Nelson | Rating: NR | Runtime: 97 minutes | Year (U.S. release): … Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘The Deep Blue Sea’
Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 1:10 am by Danny King in the Reviews categoryDirector: Terence Davies | Writers: Terence Davies, Terence Rattigan (play) | Cast: Simon Russell Beale, Tom Hiddleston, Rachel Weisz | Rating: R | Rating: 98 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea exists within … Continue reading
‘A Thousand Words’ is Actually Kind of Amazing
Posted on Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 6:12 pm by Danny King in the Uncategorized categoryUpdate: Needless to say (I think), this was an April Fools’ Day thing. Hopefully I’m not reducing the humor by coming out and stating that. I usually like to let a film settle before writing about it. Sometimes a period … Continue reading