‘Patriots Day’ Review: Docu-phony
Peter Berg’s latest feature, ‘Patriots Day’, does enough right that its flaws are easy enough to ignore, if not excuse. It’s likely as good a mainstream film about the Boston Marathon bombing as was likely ...
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‘Pixels’ Review: Lazy as @!#?@!
Oh, Adam Sandler. How a generation used to love ye. There was a time when the Sand-man walked a tightrope between mainstream crowd-pleasing and anarchistic surrealism better than anyone. That time was the mid-1990s. Now he just mi...
‘Playing It Cool’ Review: Rom-Com Plays Too Safe
The romantic comedy is a fickle beast for any filmmaker to master. The genre has a structure that must be maintained, and even though there are theoretically two ways for these worn-out stories to end, one will always win out: Hap...
‘The Best of Me’ Review: The Worst of Nicholas Sparks
Yet another Nicholas Sparks adaptation is here to present yet another ludicrously idealized version of romance that exists only in soft rock ballads and cheesy paperbacks. ‘The Best of Me’ is kind of like a comic book ...
‘True Detective’ 1.06 Recap: “Without Me, There
With the 1995 flashbacks seemingly wrapped up, ‘True Detective’ turns to the events of 2002 in this week’s episode, as viewers finally find out what led to a parting of the ways between detectives Martin Hart and...
‘True Detective’ 1.03 Recap: “The World Needs B
As detectives Martin Hart and Rust Cohle get closer to catching their killer, Martin’s home life begins to unravel on him in the latest episode of ‘True Detective’, which continues to be the best-acted, most inte...
‘True Detective’ Pilot Recap: “A Man without a
From its opening credits to the final shot, the first episode of ‘True Detective’ proves to be the best TV pilot I’ve seen in a long time. HBO’s new anthology series (which will only run eight episodes, the...
SXSW Journal: ‘Source Code’
‘Source Code’ has a simple, intriguing sci-fi conceit: Through a clandestine, morally nebulous program, the government can plant the consciousness of a willing (or unwilling) solider into the body of someone who has re...