Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama
Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes, Rated R Starring: Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly McDonald, Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy Screenplay by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Billy Bathgate, Empire of the Sun) Directed by Joe Wright (Hanna, The Soloist, Atonement) It must have been a chore to take an 864-page book written in the 1800s and make it into a movie for modern audiences. Anna Karenina – written by Leo Tolstoy – is considered one of the greatest works of fiction ever. It has been adapted for the screen multiple times over the past century, most recently in 1997. Why such a story needs to be re-made yet again is beyond me, but if anybody can pull it off, it would be the stylish up-and-coming director, Joe Wright (director of last year’s surprisingly exciting thriller, Hanna).
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Rating: 3 out of 5 starsRating: 3 out of 5 stars
Read it on: https://www.axs.com/news/movie-review-light-hearted-hitchcock-reveals-little-about-the-legendar-99353 Rating: 2 out of 5 starsGenre: Crime, Drama
Run Time: 1 hour, 37 minutes, Rated R Starring: Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Vincent Curatola, Ray Liotta Based on the novel "Cogan's Trade" by George V. Higgins Written & Directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) Killing Them Softly carries a flimsy political message wrapped in the cloak of a gangster movie. The opening credits abruptly cut back and forth between a speech by President Obama and a drifter walking through a beaten-down stretch of town. This sequence sets up the film to suggest that, perhaps, it will carry some sociopolitical heft. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy, Drama
Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes, Rated R Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher, John Ortiz, Julia Stiles Based on the novel by Matthew Quick Written & Directed by David O. Russell (The Fighter, Three Kings, Spanking the Monkey) Are you the kind of person who can find a silver lining in any situation? If so, you will love this endlessly optimistic film. But if you consider yourself to be more of a realist like me (or as optimists call us: pessimists), it’s hard to look away from the glaring, blinding flaws reflecting off the surface of Silver Linings Playbook. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Adventure, Drama
Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes, Rated PG Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Adil Hussain, Ayush Tandon Written by David Magee (Finding Neverland), based on the novel by Yann Martel Directed by Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk, Brokeback Mountain) Life of Pi may very well challenge what you believe. Then again, it may not. Ang Lee’s wonderfully adventurous adaptation of the 2001 Yann Martel novel is a deeply spiritual film. In it, we hear one whale of a story, told by an older man (Irrfan Khan) named Piscine “Pi” Patel to a young scholar who is looking to write a book. The young man heard that Pi had a story that “will make you believe in God,” so we listen as Pi recounts his amazing tale. Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Run Time: 1 hour 55 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Ashley Greene, Billy Burke, Dakota Fanning, Michael Sheen Written by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novels by Stephenie Meyer To kill a vampire in the Twilight Universe, you have to rip their head off. I was sure that a similar fate was awaiting me last November, when I gave a poor review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. That film was the worst – by far – in the series. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 may not be the best entry (my vote for that goes to the very good third installment, Eclipse), but it definitely redeems the franchise. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama, Historical
Run Time: 2 hours, Rated PG-13 Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, Jackie Earl Haley Directed by Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, Munich, War Horse ) Spielberg is a master filmmaker who has used the theme of “believing” throughout his filmography. In Lincoln, he uses this theme to effectively depict a man who had instilled belief into thousands during one of the most tumultuous times in our country’s history. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama
Run Time: 2 hours 2 minutes, Not Rated Starring: Bill Skarsgard, Helen Sjoholm, Jan Josef Liefers, Stefan Godicke, Karl Linnertorp Directed by Lisa Ohlin (Waiting for the Tenor, Seeking Temporary Wife) Simon & the Oaks is an award-winning Swedish film set during and after the Holocaust. Smartly, it is not a film about the Holocaust, rather, it is a very focused, personal story involving two seemingly different families as they navigate treacherous times. It is also a film about acceptance and finding one’s identity. Rating: 2 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama
Run Time: 1 hour 53 minutes, Not Rated Starring: Hani Furstentberg, Gael Garcia Bernal, Bidzina Gujabidze Written &Directed by Julia Loktev (Day Night Day Night) The Loneliest Planet can basically be divided into two halves, neither of which are that compelling. The film is based on the story “Expensive Trips Nowhere” by Tom Bissell, so I guess it is fitting as to where the story takes us Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Action, Adventure
Run Time: 2 hours 23 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Berenice Marlohe Directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road) In an intense, fun and wildly inventive opening chase sequence, the car that James Bond is speeding along in clips a building, knocking off the rear-view mirror. "We weren't using that anyways," says Bond. Fitting that with Skyfall - the 23rd James Bond film and the third starring Daniel Craig - there is no need for rear-view windows, metaphorically speaking. Here, the franchise plows full steam ahead and never looks back, with a movie that is everything a James Bond fan could hope for. |
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