Mighty Fine
Joe Fine, the central character in the family drama Mighty Fine, is a tragic figure. He’s a seemingly successful businessman (played by Chazz Palminteri) who uproots his Jewish family from Brooklyn to New Orleans in 1974 for a better life. (And that makes sense because the Deep South is the epitome of tolerance, right? But more on that later.)... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsPolisse
Police officers in the Child Protection Unit lead incredibly difficult lives and operate much like a dysfunctional family. At least, that’s what Polisse, the winner of the Jury prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, would have us believe.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsElena
With Elena, director Andrey Zvyagintsev was interested in exploring an uncompromising Darwinian world—as he describes it, “tarantulas in a jar.” It’s a bleak landscape to paint, and he’s done so with only a few characters and a relatively simple story.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsThe Samaritan
“The Samaritan” is a con, the signature grift of career criminal Foley (Samuel L. Jackson) before the cruel personal and professional consequences of his partner’s debt and greed land Foley in jail for 25 years. When he gets out, his partner’s son Ethan (Luke Kirby) can’t let go of the past and uses Foley’s history against him to get him to go in on an $8 million scam. Add to the mix a suicidal junkie with a heart of gold named Iris (Ruth Negga, in the Thandie Newton role), and who knows who’s really conning whom.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsHysteria
Walk into any comedy club or check out any sitcom, and at some point, a guy will question a woman’s sanity. Women and men both dismiss it as lighthearted fun, but what if there existed a world where people actually believed that women are just inherently nuts? That world was Earth in the 1800s, and the romantic comedy Hysteria shows how a few of the planet’s inhabitants set out to change it with the help of … the vibrator?... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsHick
There would seem to be plenty to get excited about in Derick Martini’s second feature film, Hick (based on the novel by Andrea Portes). If the plot is not especially enticing (a young girl from a hick town leaves home, travels West, and experiences the evils of the world), then the cast certainly garners attention. Chloë Grace Moretz takes the lead, playing alongside Juliette Lewis, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne and Alec Baldwin. Moretz and Redmayne each starred in two major pictures from last year (Hugo and My Week With Marilyn, respectively), and their pairing here certainly makes for an intriguing... read more
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