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Movie Review: ‘Detachment’ (2012)

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Danny King

There’s not a single thing that’s boring about the filmmaking on display in Detachment. Working from a screenplay by first-time scribe Carl Lund, who’s also a credited producer, Tony Kaye, who directed a curb-stomping Edward Norton to an Oscar nomination … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged 2012, 3 stars, American History X, Betty Kaye, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, D, Detachment, Edward Norton, James Caan, Lucy Liu, Marcia Gay Harden, Reviews, Sami Gayle, The Pianist, Tim Blake Nelson, Tony Kaye | 2 Comments

Movie Review: ‘The Deep Blue Sea’ (2012)

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Danny King

Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea exists within the episodic psyche of Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz). Dismantled by a botched suicide attempt, she strolls in slow motion through her circa-1950 London flat, stopping often to smoke yet another cigarette and … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged 2012, 3.5 stars, D, Florian Hoffmeister, Rachel Weisz, Reviews, Simon Russell Beale, Terence Davies, Terence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea, Tom Hiddleston | Leave a comment

Movie Review: ‘A Dangerous Method’ (2011)

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Danny King

The warning signs start popping up early and often in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method. They’re revealed mostly through the performance of Keira Knightley, who, playing the patient-turned-analyst Sabina Spielrein, is in fully-committed form. The problem is that, despite all … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged 2.5 stars, 2011, A Dangerous Method, Christopher Hampton, D, David Cronenberg, Howard Shore, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Peter Suschitzky, Reviews, Sarah Gadon, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel | 2 Comments

Movie Review: ‘The Descendants’ (2011)

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Danny King

George Clooney is firing on all cylinders in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants. He’s as funny as he’s ever been, but in a different way — previously, his most obvious comedic efforts (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading) have … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged 2011, 4 stars, Alexander Payne, Amara Miller, Beau Bridges, Burn After Reading, D, George Clooney, Jim Rash, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Nat Faxon, Nick Krause, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Patricia Hastie, Reviews, Robert Forster, Shailene Woodley, Sideways, The Descendants | 3 Comments

Movie Review: ‘Drive’ (2011)

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Danny King

Drive is director Nicolas Winding Refn’s attempt to squeeze out every emotion possible from a Hossein Amini screenplay that — let’s face it — is pretty by-the-book in its overall construction. (James Sallis’ same-named 2005 novel provides the source material, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged 2011, 4 stars, Albert Brooks, Blue Valentine, Bryan Cranston, Carey Mulligan, Cliff Martinez, D, Drive, Half Nelson, Hossein Amini, James Sallis, Kaden Leos, Lars and the Real Girl, Matthew Newman, Newton Thomas Sigel, Nicolas Winding Refn, Oscar Isaac, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Reviews, Ron Perlman, Ryan Gosling, The American | 7 Comments

Movie Review: ‘The Devil’s Double’ (2011)

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Danny King

Dominic Cooper — that spot-on supporting actor most people would recognize from An Education or, more recently, Captain America: The First Avenger — accomplishes something remarkable in Lee Tamahori’s The Devil’s Double. His task is essentially to play two physically … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged 2011, 3 stars, An Education, Captain America: The First Avenger, D, Die Another Day, Dominic Cooper, Lee Tamahori, Ludivine Sagnier, Michael Thomas, Philip Quast, Raad Rawi, Reviews, The Devil's Double | Leave a comment

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