Dan Gilroy in 2014 burst into the scene with his directorial debut feature, “Nightcrawler,” making a big impression with the dark satire about local news and tabloid culture. Now the filmmaker returns with “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” another slippery morality tale built around a protagonist with questionable social skills. Part legal drama, part character study, […]
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Film review: ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’
Director Yorgos Lanthimos specializes in dark and demented tales that delight in dismantling the rules and norms serving as the basis for civilized society. His previous work and one of last year’s best films, “The Lobster,” upended and satirized the idea of romantic relationships. That story had Lanthimos’ trademark bleak outlook, but was balanced with […]
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Film review: “The Lobster”
A wholly original film, “The Lobster” manages to glean some universal truths about how we view love from its outlandish premise.
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Film Review: “Winter’s Tale”
Although it’s only February and the reviewers haven’t quite used up their tiresome Top 10 lists, the new movie “Winter’s Tale” might qualify as the oddest film of the year, right up there with “Old Boy.” A fantasy/romance/weepie based on a novel by Mark Helprin, the picture employs a cast of well-known and accomplished actors, […]
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“Dead Man Down”
In “Dead Man Down,” the new thriller that marks the American feature debut of Danish director Niels Arden Oplev (he directed the original “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”), the filmmaker reteams with his former leading lady, Noomi Rapace, who plays another damaged young woman with a yen for revenge. The film, an odd mishmash of […]
