 Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama, Western
Run Time: 1 hour 32 minutes, Rated R Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Jonathan Pryce Co-Written & Directed by Kristian Levring (Fear Me Not, The Intended) Danish writer/director Kristian Levring has a deep fondness for the American Western. His love and admiration for the genre is evident in nearly every frame of The Salvation(opening today), a serious, gritty Western that is beautifully shot and effective enough, despite the fact that very little life is breathed into its characters.
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 Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy
Run Time: 1 hour 40 minutes, Rated R Starring: Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Craig T. Nelson, Alison Brie, Edwina Findley Dickerson Directed by Etan Cohen (feature-film directorial debut) Go on, get your mind out of the gutter. Yes, the movie is called Get Hard (opening today), but it doesn't mean what you think. How immature of you. "Hard" of course refers to the slang-version of the word, to get "tough" or to "toughen up." And you thought it meant something else.  Rating: 5 out of 5 starsGenre: Horror
Run Time: 1 hour 40 minutes, Rated R Starring: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe Written & Directed by David Robert Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover) 2011's The Myth of the American Sleepover is the best movie you've probably never seen. That film, the feature-length debut for Michigan-native writer/director, David Robert Mitchell, was as independent as a movie can get, shot on a shoe-string budget and featuring a cast of unknown, inexperienced actors. Mitchell's minimalist approach helped create what should have been a pretty familiar "coming-of-age" story, and instead he birthed a genre re-defining modern classic. Mitchell's second writing and directorial effort comes out today, the low-budget horror film, It Follows (opening locally at Cinema Detroit and at the Main Art Theater), and once again he re-defines a genre...or perhaps more accurately, re-discovers one.  Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy, Drama
Run Time: 2 hours 2 minutes, Rated PG Starring: Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, Diana Hardcastle, Richard Gere, David Strathairn, Tina Desai, Tamsin Greig, Penelope Wilton, Lillete Dubey Written by Ol Parker (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) Directed by John Madden (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Debt, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Shakespeare in Love) Death is always looming, always present, in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel(opening today). It lingers off-screen, just out of sight...a character that we hear several others mention and talk about endlessly, but one that we never get to meet. There is a fine line, the film says, between what we want and what we fear, and like the first film, the inhabitants of the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - a once run-down exotic vacation spot for the elderly in the heart of India - again find themselves choosing to live life to its fullest potential despite knowing how the story must ultimately end.  Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRating: 1 out of 5 stars
Chappie (opening today), simply put, is crappy. It is the Robocop/Short Circuit cross-over that no one was asking for or wanted.  Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy, Horror
Run Time: 1 hour 26 minutes, Not Rated Starring: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Bugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stuart Rutherford, Ben Fransham, Rhys Darby Co-Written & Co-Directed by Jemaine Clement (directorial debut) and Taika Waititi (Boy, Eagle vs. Shark) In the vein (pun intended) of brilliant mock-umentary comedies like This is Spinal Tap!, Best in Show and Fear of a Black Hat, comes What We Do in the Shadows (opening today in limited release). The premise is that a group of brave filmmakers - given crosses for protection of course - have been given exclusive and rare access into a flat occupied by a "family" of vampires. Hilarity then ensues. |
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Tom Santilli is a professional film critic, TV personality, host and
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He also is the featured film critic appearing on WXYZ Channel 7 Action News in Detroit,
and appeared weekly on FOX-2 in Detroit from 2016-2020.
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