Top stories published by I’ve Had It With Hollywood in 2012

Another example of French cheesy pretentiousness (or pretentious cheesiness), which garnered inexplicably good reviews, this film by Leos Carax is a high concept bonbon. Alex, an unsmiling Denis Lavant, goes in a white limo to several appointments through Paris. In each appointment he disguises himself as…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jun 22, 2012

The Dictator

I’m not surprised people did not run in droves to see the new Sacha Baron Cohen movie, although I understand from parsing the box office numbers that even though it was treated as a box office failure in the media, it has been accruing positive word of mouth, which is why it is still in theaters. Baron…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Dec 24, 2012

Zero Dark Thirty

The Hurt Locker is a much better movie. So is Paul Greengrass’s United 93, the greatest film ever made about 9/11. It’s worth comparing it to Zero Dark Thirty, because Greengrass avoids every single pitfall that makes Zero Dark Thirty a problematic entertainment. For one, he uses no recognizable…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

May 7, 2012

Bernie

Jack Black gives the performance of his career so far in this excellent film by Richard Linklater, based on an incredible true story about Bernie…

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Aug 22, 2012

Cosmopolis

A valiant failure. It’s no coincidence that no novel of Don DeLillo’s has ever been adapted for the screen. One of the greatest American novelists and a master of language, DeLillo’s books do not lend themselves to film easily. This did not deter David Cronenberg from adapting Cosmopolis, a novel DeLillo…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jul 16, 2012

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Watching the preview of this overblown, pointless mythical fantasy, I knew it was not the movie for me, but I was curious to see what the fuss of this much awarded movie was all about. I found it grandiose, illogical, undisciplined, pretentious and borderline offensive.
This much…

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Aug 5, 2012

Celeste and Jesse Forever

Kudos to Rashida Jones for co-writing and starring in one of the few truly engaging romantic comedies of recent times. What has been passing for romantic comedy in Hollywood lately is mostly inane drivel about women wanting to get married, fighting to get married, and being total…

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Dec 27, 2012

It’s The Makeup, Stupid

Here are some of my thoughts on why it is very possible that Daniel Day Lewis will be nominated for an Oscar for…

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Jan 28, 2012

The Iron Lady

There is a scene towards the beginning of this misconceived borefest that encapsulates the monster of acting that is Meryl Streep. There is no other reason to watch this muddled film. Streep is a freak. We all know she can do voices and mimic accents like an android, but in this scene, as Margaret…

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Aug 21, 2012

Robot & Frank

A sweet, thoughtful, original and unlikely comedy about a man with incipient Alzheimer’s and the robot that is hired to help him out; this is, once more, an opportunity to witness the greatness that is Frank Langella. He has been nailing every performance in every movie he is in, but this one is a gem…

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