Movie reviews
The Wolf of Wall Street
"The problem is he’s just not that good."
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"The problem is he’s just not that good."
Read more: /movie-review-of-the-month.html
Out of the Furnace
Written By: ANDREW BONAZELLI
A lot of critics compared this gritty, violent steel town crime drama to the likes of A Place Beyond the Pines or Killing Them Softly, both commercial duds assailed for thematic inconsistency overreaching. I personally couldn’t be happier seeing the likes of Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe and Casey Affleck exhibit their formidable dramatic chops in a non-comic book landscape. Warts and all, this saga of struggling brothers embroiled in a bare-knuckle brawling underworld exemplifies an underserved market.
Written By: ANDREW BONAZELLI
A lot of critics compared this gritty, violent steel town crime drama to the likes of A Place Beyond the Pines or Killing Them Softly, both commercial duds assailed for thematic inconsistency overreaching. I personally couldn’t be happier seeing the likes of Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe and Casey Affleck exhibit their formidable dramatic chops in a non-comic book landscape. Warts and all, this saga of struggling brothers embroiled in a bare-knuckle brawling underworld exemplifies an underserved market.
Delivery Man
Written By: ANDREW BONAZELLI
Vince Vaughn’s career is in a lull. He took on a battery of interesting dramatic roles after Swingers, but when his fan base didn’t bite, everything from Wedding Crashers on has been variations of an affable but somewhat lazy persona. That continues in this inessential dramedy, where he plays an aimless schlub whose collegeera sperm donation has gone on to produce 533 offspring. He reconnects with some of the kids while trying to avoid the thugs he's indebted to, and mawkish sentimentality unsurprisingly supplants any real tension.
Written By: ANDREW BONAZELLI
Vince Vaughn’s career is in a lull. He took on a battery of interesting dramatic roles after Swingers, but when his fan base didn’t bite, everything from Wedding Crashers on has been variations of an affable but somewhat lazy persona. That continues in this inessential dramedy, where he plays an aimless schlub whose collegeera sperm donation has gone on to produce 533 offspring. He reconnects with some of the kids while trying to avoid the thugs he's indebted to, and mawkish sentimentality unsurprisingly supplants any real tension.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Written By: ANDREW BONAZELLI
While this is a totally suitable sequel to a totally suitable adaptation of a very derivative YA fantasy series—Hunger Games beats the shit out of Twilight in every conceivable way—it’s a bummer that Catching Fire will wind up being Philip Seymour Hoffman’s most-watched movie. Instead of willfully engaging this kind of palatable mediocrity, do your brain and soul a favor and rent Happiness, Boogie Nights, The Master, Charlie Wilson’s War—hell, pretty much anything he did except for Along Came Polly.
Written By: ANDREW BONAZELLI
While this is a totally suitable sequel to a totally suitable adaptation of a very derivative YA fantasy series—Hunger Games beats the shit out of Twilight in every conceivable way—it’s a bummer that Catching Fire will wind up being Philip Seymour Hoffman’s most-watched movie. Instead of willfully engaging this kind of palatable mediocrity, do your brain and soul a favor and rent Happiness, Boogie Nights, The Master, Charlie Wilson’s War—hell, pretty much anything he did except for Along Came Polly.