The first great movie of the year is this great acted story told in three parts about the sins and redemptions of fathers and sons. Ryan Gosling leaves quite an impression and Bradley Cooper makes his first serious and believable role. A fantastic piece of cinema.
Note to Gerard Butler: fire your agent.
Visually stunning Hollywood debut by Park Chan-Wook, the master behind Oldboy. This study on sex and violence is a welcome update on Hitchcock's Shadow Of A Doubt who benefits from Nicole Kidman's best work since Birth, and making Mia Wasikowska the most interesting young actress in this side of the world.
The son of Hayao Miyazaki might not be as visually refined or inventive as his dad, but his second Ghibli feature turns a soap opera script into a little gem with fantastic pop Japanese music and a great score by Satoshi Takebe. It's a cute movie whose story has been told a million times before in Hispanic telenovelas.
A true masterpiece on that human condition we call love. Bright, sad, and heartbreaking, the dynamic between Trintignant and Riva -in the year's best female performance- is unparalleled. Rings extremely true, that's why some movigoers might find it beyond uncomfortable. But you have to stay for the ballsy, alas romantic, ending.
Awful awful awful. I hadn't walked out of a movie theater in years. The least funny comedy in ages with two extremely likable stars. Besides the cliched script, there's no chemestry between McCarthy and Bateman. And it's just a terrible waste of time.
What starts as a serious depiction of a troubled bipolar man, suddenly shifts into a neurotic romantic comedy with echoes from Jerry Maguire and Dirty Dancing! :S If you can explain why Jennifer Lawrence won the Oscar, you might be a genius.
This revamped version of Sleeping With The Enemy might be better than the one that madee Julia Roberts a star, and there's a very cute twist at the end that you will never see coming... But Lasse Hallstrom seems to have lost any sense of artistry. So many genres and clichés are tossed into this one, it's an embarrasing mess.
When I was a child I was bullied. When I was a teenager I became a bully. When I grew up I didn't kill myself or became a mass murderer. But then again the kind of bullying that goes in the USA that involves guns, knifes and basically centers around death menaces is a whole different kind of bullying. While the movie does not provide answers it reflects the horrible reality of a society that doesn't give a fuck about the most important moment in a child's life: the years at school.
One of the most impressive films ever put onscreen, Greenaway's fable on dictatorship, submissiveness, food and sex is a feast for the eyes, with lush cinematography by Sacha Vierny, spectacular outfits by Jean Paul Gaultier and an epic score by Michael Nyman. Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren bare their souls and Greenaway makes one of the most memorable and to-the-point endings in move history. Not for the faint of stomach. Oddly enough, this is the director's mot accesible film.