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 Magnificent Seven”
If you’re going to pick a film to give the remake treatment, you could do a lot worse than John Sturges’s iconic 1960 western “The Magnificent Seven,” which was itself an Americanized take on Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai.” Holding onto the sturdy plotline of the original, the new film’s major change is injecting some diversity […]
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“2 Guns”
The first time I saw the poster for “2 Guns,” the new action-comedy from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, a friend pointed it out to me while standing in the lobby of the multiplex, observing that it looked so hilariously generic it seemed to be one of those posters for a fake movie you see in […]
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“Blackfish”
UPDATED 8/9/13 to reflect a change to the Q&A at the Little. In the provocative new documentary “Blackfish,” director Gabriela Cowperthwaite examines the treatment of orca whales in SeaWorld theme parks, demonstrating the dangers (to both the animals as well as their human trainers) of keeping these fiercely intelligent, but often misunderstood, creatures in captivity. […]
