Entries from Deep Focus Movie Reviews + Weblog tagged with 'C+'
Exterminating Angels (2006)
Well, what did you expect him to call it? Crazy Bitches?...
Smokin' Aces (2007)
Explosive, ferocious, and nihilistic, Smokin’ Aces positions itself as 2007’s movie to beat in the categories of gratuitous violence and egregious overplotting. It’s all about a Vegas lounge singer, Buddy “Aces” Israel (Jeremy Piven), and the flotilla of gangsters,...
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Patrick Marber shovels pages of voiceover into Judi Dench's lap and somehow she makes them sound brilliant and scabrous. Trouble sets in when the schoolmarmish Barbara (Dench) first goes to dine with the free-spirited Sheba (Cate Blanchett), as director...
Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)
Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng revisited the cinema of his youth in Tears of the Black Tiger, a dizzy mash-up of postmodern genre picture and detached melodrama. The genre in this case is the western, which he tackles in full-on...
The Painted Veil (2006)
The odd, unbalanced structure of The Painted Veil becomes apparent early on, when an opening scene set in the lush green wilds of China, where a couple of Westerners sit silent and unperturbed by the falling rain, is abruptly...
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Will Smith suffers so comprehensively at the hands of an uncaring world in The Pursuit of Happyness — his car is towed, his wife abandons him, he’s jailed, and he’s finally kicked out of his apartment — that I...
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
Gong Li plus Chow Yun Fat sounds like some kind of superstar pairing, all right. Too bad it comes on the downslope of a precipitous decline in the watchability of director Zhang Yimou's work. Gong is the Empress and...
Turistas (2006)
The latest in a new cycle of horror film where the money shots depict beautiful young people getting terrorized, paralyzed, maimed, disfigured, dismembered or simply humiliated is Turistas, which explores cloddishness and xenophobia among the beautiful people traveling abroad....
The Nativity Story (2006)
Mary, mother of Jesus — the ultimate troubled teen.
The Fountain (2006)
The Fountain seems like a damned curious piece of work until you realize the likely circumstances of its creation. Unable to shake the germ of a great idea having to do with a fallen Spanish conquistador, the Mayan Tree of...
The King (2005)
“Do you believe in God?” Elvis (Gael García Bernal) asks 16-year-old Malerie (Pell James), after she says his cursing bothers her.
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Flags of Our Fathers is a sensitive but slightly preachy picture aimed at an audience that probably feels Saving Private Ryan is the last word on the spectacular horrors of World War II.
Hollywoodland (2006)
When I was a kid growing up in Southern Colorado, my grandfather had one of those black-and-white TV sets with a screen a few inches across that sat in a box a little bit smaller than a tower PC case.
Rent (2005)
It could be worse, I suppose. Blissfully unfamiliar with the showtunes that made Rent an off-Broadway and Broadway stalwart, I was put off in a big way by the original trailer, whose main feature is a bare stage featuring...
Great Expectations (1998)
Magical or hokey, depending on your point of view, Alfonso Cuarón's new version of Great Expectations is another reinvented classic for the age of MTV. Of course, this version bears little resemblance to the original Dickens. Even some of...
To Die For (1995)
To Die For is an ambitious little flick about the seductive lure of stardom, the suggestive power of Nicole Kidman's lips, and the promise of liberation held by a teenage flunky with a handgun who's willing to lose everything...
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