Tag: august 2020
-
‘The Manchurian Candidate’ is an Arresting Thriller
Demme’s movie arguably creeps under the skin more than the more-unanimously acclaimed 1962 cinematization.
-
On ‘Courage Under Fire’
This intermittently forceful war story, doubles as a kind of detective tale.
-
‘Cobra’ is a Visual Tour-de-Force and Not a Lot Else
With its sound off, ‘Cobra’ is an exceptional entrée into the action genre.
-
Just Be Yourself
On ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ and ‘Let It Be.’
-
‘Phase IV’ Expands on Monster-Movie Limitations
On Saul Bass’ sole directing effort.
-
Rebirth
On ‘Malcolm X,’ ‘He Got Game,’ and ‘Inside Man.’
-
Wild Ones
On ‘Suzi Q’ and ‘The Go-Go’s.’
-
‘Special Effects’ is a Plasticky Hitchcock Homage
‘Special Effects’ brims with good ideas, but a surplus of good but iffily executed ideas do not a good movie make.
-
Strange Days
On ‘Host’ and ‘She Dies Tomorrow.’
-
‘Mississippi Masala’: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’-Style Rom-Com with a Much Happier Ending
At the end of ‘Mississippi Masala,’ we don’t get an end-all, be-all resolution. Instead we stumble into a temporary clearing.
-
Nicole Beharie is Sublime in ‘Miss Juneteenth’
‘Miss Juneteenth’ is an intimate, lived-in drama.
-
In ‘The Might Quinn,’ the Central Mystery Almost Feels Besides the Point
This is a film that so expressively creates a milieu, and so observantly cultivates its character dynamics, it could contain no police procedural narrativizing and still make for solid entertainment.
Peterson Reviews 