• Mad Max: Fury Road

    Capsule Reviews: May 2015 Wide Releases

    Aloha Comedy (?) where Bradley Cooper plays a military contractor and former soldier who returns to Hawaii for a secret new assignment, where he makes amends with his ex (Rachel McAdams) and finds new love. Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky) was one of the most promising filmmakers ...
  • Birdman

    Capsule Reviews: Fall 2014 Releases

    American Sniper I'm torn on this one. My first instinct was to grade this slightly higher for what is a gripping, well-acted war movie that explores the toll relentless killing takes on a soldier. However, the politics of this thing make me uneasy. That the film offers an overly simplified, ...
  • Mud

    Mud

    Jeff Nichols’s last film as writer-director, Take Shelter, was a masterpiece of paranoia and psychological horror, whose main protagonist was either a prophet of the apocalypse or just plain mentally ill. It was the work of a young filmmaker eager to prove his talent and already confident enough in his ...