 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2004) |
|
"Nowhere near so frightening as it pretends to be."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2003) |
|
"The film's non-dramatic but exhilarating finale is what clings most memorably.
"
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2006) |
|
"Singers, instrumentalists, bands and composers are poorly identified by ornate brief printed titles, only two or three familiar names resonating for a general public."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2005) |
|
"The music does not come alive in 'Maestro.'"
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2003) |
|
"The sort of stand-up, one-liner, canned laughter sitcom that, unaccountably, the public finds irresistible."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1966) |
|
"Political, religious and personal niceties of the period are streamlined, and the movie concentrates on the impressive steadfastness of Sir Thomas More."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Pearl himself is impeccable, but however merited, the film's encomiums cloy, like the short-lived TV program that reported only "good" news items."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2004) |
|
"Fine action-intrigue."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Admirable in not pandering to World Trade Center gut sentiment, the James Marsh 'Man on Wire' details Philippe Petit's 1974 wirewalk between the 110-storey structures."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"The concerns of 'Manda Bala' are admirable, but its selective reality is so far from almost any viewer's conceivable experience as to verge on caricature."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"Some images in 'Manufactured Landscapes' fascinate like the snake, a color beauty mark surrounded by at times unidentifiable ugliness."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2005) |
|
"The story is quiet, but the process and mere fact of species survival is majestic."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1978) |
|
"Enormous if sobering fun -- and one of the notable accomplishments of modern German cinema."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
"'The Man in the Shadows' is an admirable and uniquely organized documentary about Val Lewton and his brooding works of darkness."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2003) |
|
"That, even in time of war, routine at sea is like this -- infrequent intense action, but mostly boring drudgery -- still does not make it cinematic entertainment."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2004) |
|
"Intelligently combines rarely shown film, TV news, home footage, stills and interviews in a complete package."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Much takes place offstage in 'Meat Loaf,' so there are few seconds wasted on the de rigueur ecstasy of audiences older than rockumentary adolescents."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"Angelina Jolie gives her strongest performance as defiant Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl in 'A Mighty Heart.'"
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"Here is austere classic drama tinged with early Kurosawa, a filmmaker among director Neten Chokling's favorites."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"With neither subtlety nor depth, 'Milk' does no service to its group cause or individual subject."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"This Peruvian tale is about the superstitious but psychologically valid effects of terror."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2006) |
|
"The social situation at the heart of 'Mirage/Iluzija' is so fraught with political implication that the film hits on both levels."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1958) |
|
"The viewer's reward lies in the film's sprinkles of comic genius."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2003) |
|
"'Mondays in the Sun' captures the small drama of the individual buffeted against larger impersonal events of local, national and world politics and economics."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2005) |
|
"'Monsieur N.' is fine old-time cinema."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2003) |
|
"A finely done film that engages an audience despite its despicable protagonist."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2004) |
|
"Backed by indigenous-tinted music and earthy colors, this no-frills film projects the humor of comraderie and of the people."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2006) |
|
"About willfully homeless street youth and their programmed need for community and belonging, but the film's unintentional ramifications dig deeper."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1964) |
|
"The three fights covered in this documentary are not pictured at all beyond a very few grainy stills."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2005) |
|
"In an excellent lesson for documentarians and fabulists alike, filmmakers here show, rather than narrate, their tale in 86 minutes, make the point and know when to get out.
"
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1963) |
|
"The web of opened, ultimately unfollowed trails in 'Muriel' leads, not to the coherence of art, but to mere mirrors within mirrors."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Honed to a gem, 'My Father, My Lord' is a miniature without an ounce of fat among its vignettes of laconic dialogue. A glance or few words carry optimal weight."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"The latter part of 'My Winnipeg' turns too easily to rant against the selling of the cherished past to a rush to modernity."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2003) |
|
"Mesmerizing filmmaking."
[movie review] |
|
ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
|
|
