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Wednesday, February 3,2010
Sideshow

Frozen

Skier'ed Shitless: Adam Green sustains the premise and the peril in Frozen.

By Scott Renshaw
There are really only two key questions for anyone crafting a “people trapped somewhere” thriller: 1. How plausible is it that they can’t get help?, and 2. How do you sustain the premise once the peril has been established?
Wednesday, January 27,2010
Sideshow

Edge of Darkness

Grief Counseling: The sizzle over-cooks the steak in Edge of Darkness.

By Scott Renshaw
Perhaps the spate of “vengeful parent” thrillers over the past months—Taken, Law Abiding Citizen, the new Edge of Darkness—is a cinematic manifestation of our collective sense of helplessness ...
Wednesday, January 20,2010
Sideshow

Extraordinary Measures

Lifetime Member: Don't bother to get off the couch for Extraordinary Measures.

By Scott Renshaw
The based-on-a-true-story debut release by CBS Films’ theatrical division looks exactly like something that would have showed up on CBS proper 30 years ago ...
Wednesday, January 13,2010
Sideshow

A Single Man

Sad, Pretty Pictures: Tom Ford should have let the grim beauty of A Single Man speak for itself.

By MaryAnn Johanson
It’s a good thing first-time director Tom Ford—yes, the fashion designer—cast Colin Firth as the lead in A Single Man ...
Wednesday, January 6,2010
Sideshow

Leap Year

Suck of the Irish: Hope something like Leap Year only rolls around once every four years.

By Scott Renshaw
Screenwriters Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont have committed plenty of crimes against cinema over the past decade. But Leap Year finds them guilty of the impossible: They managed to render Amy Adams utterly charmless ...
Wednesday, December 30,2009
Sideshow

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet

Frederick Wiseman creates an epic out of mundane-but-essential detail.

By Scott Renshaw
Frederick Wiseman has spent more than 40 years as a documentary filmmaker, virtually defining the “fly on the wall” approach...
Wednesday, December 23,2009
Sideshow

Sherlock Holmes

Doctored Sleuth: If Guy Ritchie can come up with a better story next time, there's potential in Sherlock Holmes.

By Eric D. Snider
Apparently tired of being a fringe filmmaker, Guy Ritchie has gone mainstream with Sherlock Holmes ...
Wednesday, December 16,2009
Sideshow

The Road

Unsettled Score: The Road is an effective, if noisy, adaptation.

By Scott Renshaw
If ever a movie demanded respect for the power of silence, it should have been the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s devastatingly magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winner The Road ...
Wednesday, December 9,2009
Sideshow

Crude

Oil Slick: Crude is what a story becomes when the world is watching.

By Scott Renshaw
Over his 20-year career as a documentary filmmaker, Joe Berlinger has generally found gripping stories behind the surface stories he’s ostensibly covering ...
Wednesday, December 2,2009
Sideshow

The Damned United

Playing to Type: The story is really about what happens on the sidelines.

By Scott Renshaw
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, certain character actors spent their entire careers playing variations on the same basic type—the grumpy old codger, the funny sidekick, the fussy dowager ...
 
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