Who will benefit more from a big-screen adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's best-seller, Eat, Pray, Love: travel agents or divorce attorneys? Ryan Murphy's travelogue drama of the soul -- like the memoir he loyally adapts -- romanticizes such selfishly liberating decisions...... more »
FilmCritic entries tagged "salt"
Salt may be the first truly successful launch of a female secret agent franchise since Renny Harlin tried to turn his then-wife Geena Davis into a simmering CIA assassin with the under-appreciated The Long Kiss Goodnight. In Angelia Jolie's delightful...... more »
As much as I like Hervé Villechaize, it's pretty impossible to like much about The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, a mob slapstick comedy that features Tattoo is one of a bunch of hapless thugs who want to get rid...... more »
No matter how large your crush on Rachael Leigh Cook might be, do not see Tempo. It'll ruin your image of her forever. In this pathetic film, Cook is an oblivious American inexplicably brought to Paris to work in an...... more »
Before Brian De Palma started making schlock (but arty!) horror like Sisters, Carrie, and The Fury, he was busy making arty (but schlocky!) experimental films like Hi, Mom! Supposedly a sequel to De Palma's Greetings (never seen it), here we...... more »
In 1969, following an anti-establishment path blazed famously by Bonnie and Clyde, then-X-rated Midnight Cowboy lumbered into the cinema consciousness and swiped the Best Picture Oscar. While Hollywood was producing Hello, Dolly! (also nominated that year), Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight...... more »
Damn dirty cops! It's gonna take Frank Serpico to clean up this town!!! Based on a true story of rampant corruption and internal affairs in New York City (where else?), Serpico stands as the consummate cop movie, right up there...... more »