Eric Rohmer’s Le Rayon Vert

The unlikely heroine of this lovely, wise, delicate romantic comedy by Eric Rohmer is Delphine, a young single…

Presunto Culpable/Presumed Guilty

I just saw the harrowing Mexican documentary Presumed Guilty online.
You can watch it, and should…

Incendies

Looks like this year, except for the icy sharp Dogtooth, (I haven’t seen the Algerian Outside The Law), the foreign language Oscar nominees have one thing in common, and that is they all are super-overwrought. In 2010 there was a nice mix of genre in the category: the great gangster movie, Un Prophet, genre…

Margin Call

It looks like hype was looking for an Occupy Wall Street movie and found this one right on time. Its timeliness will no doubt help…

Blue Valentine

According to Richard Brody from The New Yorker:

Blue Valentine is a blend of a TV commercial and an acting…

Tabloid

In his documentaries, Errol Morris is fascinated equally by interesting human subjects, the thin line between fact and fiction, and the slippery…

My Week With Marilyn

I have a fear of biopics because they tend to be stiff and cheesy and too reverent towards their subjects. The opening scenes of My Week With Marilyn promise a classic Harvey Weinstein, Oscar-hungry project, all very prim and proper but not very interesting, but if you stick around, it gets…

Carnage

Roman Polanski has taken a clever but unimpressive play and made it better.
When I saw Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage on Broadway, I was entertained but underwhelmed. It’s a neat but rather facile concept — the veneer of civilization promptly chips away as two sets of parents discuss a fight between their…