Entries from Deep Focus Movie Reviews + Weblog tagged with 'A+'
The Double Life of Véronique (1991)
I remember seeing The Double Life of Véronique in the tiny upstairs auditorium (it had previously been the balcony) at the Esquire Theatre in Denver sometime in 1992. There were, I believe, seven people in the theater on a...
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)
Saddening but riveting, and possessed of a positively wicked wit, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is executed with the sensitivity of great literature and the panache of bravura filmmaking....
Miami Vice (2006)
There’s a scene somewhere in the middle of Miami Vice where Crockett, feeling some oats, sensibly decides to sow them in the direction of Gong Li. They get on a speedboat and whiz off into the ocean blue. You...
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
In the near-future science fiction world of A Scanner Darkly, narc agents are polymorphous detectives, wearing “scramble suits” that cycle, both visually and aurally, through scores of identity fragments to avoid detection by face-recognition systems. It’s a striking idea...
Don't Look Now (1973)
Seen from the uncompromising vantage of a quarter-century's passage of time, Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now is showing its age. The injudicious use of the zoom lens, impressionistic editing techniques, and an ill-advised sound mix featuring mainly Donald Sutherland's...
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Stanley Kubrick makes a movie about ... monogamy. How good can that be?...
Wings of Desire (1987)
When I sat down again with Wings of Desire, showing it to a friend who had not yet encountered it, I approached it, as always, from the skeptic's viewpoint. Once again, I was ready to interrogate my own feelings...
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