“(OK) Clint was already a master. Leone's spirit is all over the flm, but some macabre tones are unique in his carreer, as the town paintes, the little man becoming sheriff and mayor...” read more
“(MU) Iannucci's political comedies are more credible and realist than ?House of cards? ore other political stuff. Too many words and verbal fights, but the hogh key is well sustained, some actions (the assintatn leakinf everything, the subsecreatary and her bleeding teeth...) are really amusing” read more
“MU) Personal, warm, with happy feelings of daughter reunited with supposedly hard mother who abandoned her; bur she didn´t abandon her marxist dreams...” read more
“(OK) Cukor just dances with his camera around stars ego, amd MGM elegant, loyal incursion in a classic. The introduction of characters and and of the love affair are loyal to Hollywood screenwriting, the language is yeah, hard to get, and even harder in funny support form John Barrymore and Edna May” read more
“(MU) Porn and romance in single shots, HIV and kisses and wandering together lookinf for a kebab in Paris night after meeting in a sex club...a manigesto” read more
“(OK) Two secuences are a masterpiece, one openly comic being dramatic, the other opnely dramatic being comic. Grodin, in great acting, tires to convince Eddie Albert (superb) he is serious about Cybill and is going to abandon his recent wife. Next great secuence: Grodin tell the wife (bigger and lou” read more
“(MU) It seems a light version, with his fantastic touches, of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Light and almost comic, and delicate intimate when tha two firnds discuss his familiar problems...” read more
“(OK) Even pirate copies are censored in the sex with boy first secuence. You have to look for the right scandalous copies. The adult Sweetback is a lousy actor that runs more than fuck; but the editing is so naif and original, that the film triumhs over any resistance” read more
“(OK) Frivolous comedy, some nice lines, structure ok, ending with the main characters in a party but wih a forced romantic touch oposed to the rest. Edna May Oliver is always amusing” read more
“(OK) Everything happens (melodrama, action, intrigue, love and triangle, trial, death sentence, a wreck) int his MGM hit that could be, some 3 years after, a Warner masterpiece by Walsh or Curtiz. The cast is excellent being loyal to thier star profiles...” read more
“(MU) De Niro, wants to kill or to teach Di Caprio, almost a simile of the plot. Tobias or Jack (the boy's 2 names) really templates his character arounf Dwight/De Niro while mixing with local boys with no future including a gay one...” read more
“(OK) Corny but not bollywoodesque, two people meet in a fail of a proud system of deivering lunchboxes (Harvard praises ot says the delivery man) and then the letters are too obvious, superfcial, mmhhh...a pity” read more
“(OK) Good debut, Hodges! Caine is as cold and cool as it is needed for the straight premise: agangster comes back to town (interesting Newcastle) to revenge his innocent brother's death. "I'm the villain in the family" he says to the local hoodlums who, besides killing his bro, makes his niece an as” read more
“(OK) I'm not sure how much Cukor is here, is too 'stagey' for him, and nor Myrna neither Ann Harding are bright; everything goes in monotonous circles...” read more
“(OK) Constance Bennett is as great as garbo or Tallulah or Shearer with Cukor. Here is amusisng, vital, sad, changing radically of tones inside a secuence. An apparent fantasy with ballons, and clowning with drunken Jobyna, are bonus...” read more
“(OK) First Roeg solo goes to Australia where civilization edges with primitivism. A natural traditional indigenous walkabout ends tragically, an accidental, violent, urban in the wilderness walkabout ends happily...” read more
“(MU) Aronovsky not so excessive in spite of the theme (a yong woman is dying and she writes on ancient meanings of life and so on)m of travel to futrure and past; but somehow he is monochord in its style...” read more
“(OK) Surprise, an adult musical on childs background, noir touches, so imaginative that yo forgive its predictability. Wilder is elegant and excellent,the boys and girls are functional...” read more
“(MU) Great Leigh, there are good people in earth and in 1950 London as Vera and her family and even the police who caputres her, trying to undestand why she 'helps girls out' (abort) for nothing...” read more
“(OK) Cukor gaining confidence in himself as excellent director of actors. Burke is delicate, Barrymore is as exhuberant as his role permits, Hepburn is learning everything, includind delciaming melodramatic lines. The story has aged...” read more
“(MU) Better than the first view; more structured than it seemed even with too mane characters, but stands the romantic couple and the bustcher and the handsome neighbour, Funny scenes and comic compositions...” read more
“(OK) Id very good, Ophuls has the witnesses,the personalities (Anthony Eden, Pierre Mendes...), the right and left and hipocrites and sincere people, proving that there´s no black and white heroism in war...” read more