Chlotrudis says: “MAGNOLIA is Paul Thomas Anderson’s three-hour epic of loss, loneliness, forgiveness and coincidence. Beautifully shot and engagingly acted, MAGNOLIA can alternately humor, sadden, shock and amaze as it weaves together a multitude of story lines about several people
Michael says: “I could say a lot of things about FARGO, all of them good, but what I most need to say is that Marge Gunderson is one of our all-time great cinematic heroes! Practical, unflappable, determined, and optimistic are
Diane says: “Hey, fans of the book–you won’t be disappointed. I’ll be giving ROOM noms for Best Adapted Screenplay (happily, by the book’s author and Best Actress. This movie was as emotionally intense as any I’ve seen. As THE ROAD
Jason says: “There are two general ways a ‘bag of money’ movie can go: Navigating the intricate set-up that is revealed through a constant series of revelations and double-crosses that the anti-hero must navigate in order to keep the cash
Bruce says: “So many things could have gone wrong with bringing THE SESSIONS to the screen. The script could have made the story cheap and tawdry. The direction could have taken the story to a sensationalistic plateau. The actors could
Chris says: “This satire about a slick lobbyist for the tobacco industry (perfectly embodied by Aaron Eckhart) isn’t nearly as subversive or edgy as it thinks it is. Actually, it plays like a less eccentric, dumbed-down version of I HEART
Peg says: “The characters in David Mamet’s new thriller might be mistaken for those in a Michael Crichton novel if not for their tendency to spout profane haiku instead of dialogue. Val Kilmer’s Robert Scott is an ex-Marine and Secret
Hilary says: “In this formulaic yarn William H. Macy plays Bernie Lootz, the unluckiest fella ever. Lootz is a ‘cooler’ working to spread his bad luck to the patrons of The Golden Shangri-La, an old-school Las Vegas casino run by
