If I Am Wrath (Saban, 4.29) shows some narrative discipline, holds back a little and builds slowly and doesn’t lean too far in the direction of meta-mockery, it might be half-tolerable. Travolta knows how to do this kind of thing. I could believe him as the new Paul Kersey, and I could even enjoy the ride. Maybe. If director Chuck Russell doesn’t screw it up. Written by Yvan Gauthier and Paul Sloan. Costarring Christopher Meloni, Sam Trammell, Amanda Schull, Rebecca De Mornay and Luis Da Silva.
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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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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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