It’s fitting that this review appears on rogerebert.com. Remember (and I don’t mean any disrespect) that every now and then Roger could be very friendly to films that most of the movie-reviewing community hated. The tradition of the smart, insightful reviewer with a kind or compassionate streak didn’t begin with F.X. Feeney, but he’s probably the most respected practitioner of this kind of thing. Now he has an ally in Matt Zoller Seitz. Nothing wrong with that.
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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