FilmCritic entries tagged "Viggo Mortensen"

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A Dangerous Method

by Chris Barsanti on Nov 23 2011
A Dangerous Method

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The history of pairing historical figures in fictional films is a mostly unfortunate one -- bold-face names facing off in situations contrived for maximum melodrama. David Cronenberg's scalpel-sharp rendering of the psychosexual triangle between Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Sabina Spielrein (a patient, and later therapist in her own right, who fascinated them both) almost falls prey to this failing. But a trio of astonishingly committed performances and a taut screenplay free of hyperbole and overstatement keep this drama relatively free of melodramatic pitfalls, while still relating a fully engaging story of an intellectual love triangle.

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The Road

by Chris Barsanti on Nov 24 2009
DVD Release Date: May 25, 2010
The Road

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Images can only do so much, even in film. When director John Hillcoat and writer Joe Penhall decided to turn Cormac McCarthy's grim fable The Road into a film, they were setting themselves up for failure. When the Coen brothers...... more »
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Appaloosa

by Sean O'Connell on Oct 3 2008
DVD Release Date: January 13, 2009
Appaloosa

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Unlike its immediate predecessors, which have retooled (Unforgiven), remade (3:10 To Yuma), revered (Open Range), and re-imagined (The Proposition) the genre, Ed Harris' Appaloosa is simply content being a good Western. It's unapologetic of its formula, unwilling to waver in...... more »
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Eastern Promises

by Chris Cabin on Sep 21 2007
DVD Release Date: December 25, 2007
Eastern Promises

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We're in London and the streets look like they are owned and operated by Beelzebub himself. The ghosts of the KGB death squads loom in the distance, but the Russian crime syndicate's stranglehold over the hoods and alleys is as...... more »
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Ringers: Lord of the Fans

by Christopher Null on Nov 27 2005
DVD Release Date: November 22, 2005

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Every good geek franchise has a corresponding picture about its freaky fanatics. Star Trek has Trekkies (1 and 2), Star Wars has The Phandom Menace, and Lord of the Rings has Master of the Rings. Er, and this film, Ringers...... more »
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A History of Violence

by Chris Barsanti on Sep 30 2005
DVD Release Date: February 10, 2009
A History of Violence

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Those well schooled in the history of cinema (or who've just seen a movie or two in their time) cannot help but look at the scenes of idyllic content occupying most of the beginning of A History of Violence without...... more »
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Hidalgo

by David Levine on Mar 4 2004
DVD Release Date: August 3, 2004
Hidalgo

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According to history, for centuries a 3,000 mile race known as the 'Ocean of Fire' was run by young thoroughbred horses across the Arabian Desert. This race is the focal point of Hidalgo - a story about a man and...... more »
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

by Christopher Null on Dec 19 2003
DVD Release Date: June 28, 2011
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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Peter Jackson returns with his third and final installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy with the explosive - and exhausting - conclusion to his acclaimed series. Let's cut to the chase: Jackson's final entry is the best of...... more »
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Daylight

by Christopher Null on Oct 8 2003
DVD Release Date: October 1, 1997

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Pretty stupid Poseidon Adventure/Towering Inferno/Die Hard wannabe, with Sylvester Stallone (as disgraced paramedic) rescuing a ton of people from a collapsed, burning, air-limited tunnel. Oh dear! Some interesting set building (yep, looks like a tunnel) doesn't come close to making...... more »
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Carlito's Way

by Chris Barsanti on May 22 2003
DVD Release Date: September 20, 2005
Carlito's Way

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Spitting in the face of the idea that criminals are simply nurtured by their environments, legendary gangster Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino, doing a vague approximation of a Puerto Rican accent) stands before a judge in the 1993 Brian De Palma...... more »

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