’99 Homes’: A Morality Play Built On Foreclosures And Evictions
The post ’99 Homes’: A Morality Play Built On Foreclosures And Evictions brought to you by New Jazz. by David Edelstein The most powerful morality plays work like drama instead of melodrama, so you’re...
View ArticleHorror Tries To Have It Both Ways In ‘Green Inferno’
The post Horror Tries To Have It Both Ways In ‘Green Inferno’ brought to you by New Jazz. by Scott Tobias When horror auteur Eli Roth broke into the mainstream with Hostel in 2005, he tapped into a...
View ArticleSuspense And Emotion Teeter Alongside Each Other In ‘The Walk’
The post Suspense And Emotion Teeter Alongside Each Other In ‘The Walk’ brought to you by New Jazz. by Scott Tobias In their absence, the twin towers have occupied such a significant place in the...
View ArticleCan Contemporary Teenagers Put An End To ‘Final Girls’?
The post Can Contemporary Teenagers Put An End To ‘Final Girls’? brought to you by New Jazz. by Andrew Lapin [Note: We assume you know that movie reviews always discuss the plot of the film to at least...
View ArticleIn The Midst Of War, A Boy Becomes A Soldier In ‘Beasts Of No Nation’
The post In The Midst Of War, A Boy Becomes A Soldier In ‘Beasts Of No Nation’ brought to you by New Jazz. by NPR Staff The transformation of a young boy protected from war into a child soldier...
View ArticleSpielberg Takes On The Cold War In ‘Bridge Of Spies’
The post Spielberg Takes On The Cold War In ‘Bridge Of Spies’ brought to you by New Jazz. by Mark Jenkins Your country may be wrong, Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies sadly admits. But it maintains...
View ArticleA Most Unusual And Beautiful ‘Assassin’
The post A Most Unusual And Beautiful ‘Assassin’ brought to you by New Jazz. by Ella Taylor The Assassin, a gorgeous new work by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is a martial arts film influenced...
View ArticleDel Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’: A Gothic Romance Inside Richly Creepy Walls
The post Del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’: A Gothic Romance Inside Richly Creepy Walls brought to you by New Jazz. by Scott Tobias The title of Guillermo Del Toro’s luxuriant gothic romance, Crimson Peak,...
View ArticleRenowned Director Breaks The Mold, With An ‘Assassin’ No One Saw Coming
The post Renowned Director Breaks The Mold, With An ‘Assassin’ No One Saw Coming brought to you by New Jazz. by Neda Ulaby The title character of The Assassin is a mysterious, silent woman draped in...
View Article‘Experimenter’ Revisits A Decades-Old Trial Of Free Will And Compassion
The post ‘Experimenter’ Revisits A Decades-Old Trial Of Free Will And Compassion brought to you by New Jazz. by David Edelstein Michael Almereyda’s movie, Experimenter, revisits a controversial 1961...
View ArticleIn ‘Spectre,’ Bond’s Back And Looking Over His Shoulder
The post In ‘Spectre,’ Bond’s Back And Looking Over His Shoulder brought to you by New Jazz. by Bob Mondello Spectre opens in Mexico City — a Day of the Dead festival in full swing — streets crowded...
View ArticleIndie Filmmaker Brings Story Of Chile’s ’33’ Miners To The Big Screen
The post Indie Filmmaker Brings Story Of Chile’s ’33’ Miners To The Big Screen brought to you by New Jazz. by NPR Staff Five years ago, the world was riveted by the plight of 33 miners trapped deep...
View ArticleAn Undercooked Portrait Of A Suffering Marriage ‘By The Sea’
The post An Undercooked Portrait Of A Suffering Marriage ‘By The Sea’ brought to you by New Jazz. by Ella Taylor Angelina Jolie Pitt’s By the Sea opens with a long shot over a sharp precipice that...
View ArticleArrested Development Meets Adulthood In ‘James White’
The post Arrested Development Meets Adulthood In ‘James White’ brought to you by New Jazz. by Bob Mondello Last week, James Bond, this week James White — proof, should any be required, that fall movies...
View ArticleNo Christmas Cheer For ‘The Coopers’
The post No Christmas Cheer For ‘The Coopers’ brought to you by New Jazz. by Scott Tobias The Coopers have a gorgeous kitchen. And since it’s Christmastime, those granite countertops are lined end to...
View ArticleSpike Lee Declares An Emergency In ‘Chi-Raq’
by Scott Tobias Answering one kind of madness with another, Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq approaches the plague of gun violence in Chicago with a staggering disregard for propriety. Just the title alone — a...
View ArticleA Beautifully Drawn Journey With ‘Boy And The World’
by Ella Taylor The lively little fellow we meet in the Brazilian film Boy and the World has a circle for a head topped with three goofy hairs, two vertical slits for eyes, a striped tee-shirt and black...
View ArticleThe Guys Who Put Monster Bets On Bad Outcomes In ‘The Big Short’
by Mark Jenkins The two best American movies of the year so far, Spotlight and The Big Short, are both docudramas, yet are entirely different in tone. Where the former is sober and pitch-perfect, the...
View Article‘The Benefactor’ Finds A Wealthy Man Emotionally Broke
by Ella Taylor If nothing else The Benefactor, an absorbing if uneven psychological drama from writer-director Andrew Renzi, provides Richard Gere with a liberating opportunity to come on like Al...
View ArticleSilly Accents And Too Many Shadows Sink ‘Triple 9’
by Mark Jenkins The Russian mob plans a 999, code for “officer down”, to pull of a heist in Triple 9. Courtesy of Open Road Films In Triple 9’s beyond-shadowy opening, a group of reprobates discusses...
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