For 23 years the world has been quoting Oliver Stone's Wall Street. You know the line: "Greed is good." But few people appear to have hung around for the end of that film, which featured Michael Douglas's iconic Gordon Gekko...... more »
FilmCritic entries tagged "Susan Sarandon"
Edward Norton can't help but project intelligence. Sometimes he channels it into an earnest nerdiness and sometimes he plays seedier but no less crafty lowlifes, but his insinuating, nasal voice and that slight squint almost always come in service of...... more »
Talented filmmakers and wonderful actors alike get stranded in Middle of Nowhere, a shockingly bad coming-of-age dramedy that tests not only our patience, goodwill, and understanding of humanity, but also our ability to stare at a screen for 90-plus minutes....... more »
In the brief, pre-credits prelude to Brian Koppelman and David Levien's Solitary Man, autumnal car-dealership-owner Ben Kalman (Michael Douglas) is told that there is an abnormality on his EKG. As the doctor says he wants to order tests, Kalman drifts...... more »
In The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson may have left Middle-Earth behind for the potentially less magical realm of 1970s small-town Pennsylvania, but the characters inhabiting this land of modest, shag-carpeted split-levels and bustling shopping malls are hardly less mythical. There's...... more »
Thelma & Louise is a landmark film, one that defines the cinematic terrain for female empowerment and one that effortlessly blends powerful ideas about gender with an endlessly engaging story. The film weaves a story about women in distress, who...... more »
Speed Racer currently leads a race it won't want to win. Right now it's the summer's most irrelevant blockbuster, the first missed opportunity of a still-developing season that hasn't yet entered turn one. Even worse, Racer now sits in the...... more »
HBO lined up two big stars to tell the story of billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke and her loyal yet shady butler Bernard Lafferty. Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes star in Bernard and Doris and give it a go, but...... more »
In a fairly surprising move, Disney has come forward and shown it has an actual sense of humor about its patented brand of cheesy, clichéd, and relentless peppiness. Previously, self-reference has been limited to cross marketing between one Disney film...... more »
John Turturro's dream project Romance & Cigarettes is a gutter-style jukebox musical with chutzpah to spare and which doesn't know when to quit. It's all here: Singing garbagemen! Catfight in a SoHo lingerie store! Hot-to-trot Kate Winslet as a scorchingly...... more »
