Reviews by fernando

3 stars just for launching a serie, a topic (car racing against the law and after that, for the law), a team with its simple melodrama (handsome Walker is a cop betraying unbetrayable Vin Diesel).

Great depiction of rural life. The scene where Julie sings in the tabel is better thabn any other dramatic scene. The period reconstruction is perfect (the scene in the coastal city is ok). Finch is the best of the quartet, but Stamp is an irrsistible bad guy with feelings.

Great. Rivette is so moved by his tale that simply narrates it, with still camera, sober decors, cond delivery of text but no cold acting.

Vain attempt the simple, dark and difficult. And to prepare possible sequels. Long and reiterative.

A surprise. Not only McKellen is astonishing; Condon is ok in each confrontation between Holmes and everybody else. A tupical sherlockian inductive thriller within another drama.

Compared with Hollywood's "Trumbo", this Hollywood spook mocks and hommages both rthe conservative and the blacklisted. The ingenue Clooney mistaking singing cowboy Hobbie Doyle for a commie, is excellent.

Polanksi at its best, bloody, provocative, la mise en scene of great phrases (love the withces 'something wicked this way comes'), Macbeth surviving lady Macbeth madness revitalizes him.

Gets better till the end, mostly when Debra appears and establishes a sex duel with Peters over Jourdan. Before that, a regular pirate movie.

Great 'polar'. Its charm its not in the noir intirgue, which is ok (a plane forced to land in a joghway); but in human talk and drama. The boy seeing Delon and Demich in the beach, wich makes the pre climax; Lino ventura quitting his resistance to smoke; Gabin and Nazzarin buying presents to their grandchildren

Gordon Douglas, and Errol and Ruth deserved better than this. In despite of 2 or 3 noir scenes with Burr, the screenplay has a pitiful religious ending and the death of a expendable philipine boy.