Gus Van Sant’s new film successfully side-steps cliché in its details, but feels like yet another story about the healing power of art and the necessity of humor in the face of suffering.
Joaquin Phoenix
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Film Review: “Irrational Man”
Here we are once again: another year, another Woody Allen film. The prolific director’s latest cinematic endeavor comes packed with the filmmaker’s trademarks: erudite intellectuals sit around conversing about philosophy and morality until an ill-conceived scheme (or two) comes along to shake up the snow-globe sized world they inhabit. But as in Allen’s past few […]
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Film Review: “Inherent Vice”
If nothing else, “Inherent Vice” demonstrates how far the private eye movie, a classic American form, has traveled since the days of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. In the new film, the tough detective in search of a hidden truth — played most memorably by Humphrey Bogart and some worthy successors like Dick Powell, Robert […]
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Film Review: “Her”
If you’ve ever been around someone who has lost or misplaced his phone, witnessed a frantic search that seems more appropriate for a missing child than a lifeless gadget, or gone out to dinner with friends only to find each other paying more attention to handheld devices than each other, it’s not too much of […]
