The Best of Youth (La Meglio Gioventù) Review
A six-hour drama following two brothers during forty years of Italian history. And worth every minute of it.
A six-hour drama following two brothers during forty years of Italian history. And worth every minute of it.
An oft-ignored, long unavailable Cary Grant-Katherine Hepburn gem.
A charmingly slight mixed-race romantic comedy, featuring charismatic performances by Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker but script as thin as the paper it’s printed on.
At once a history and a fantasy, Terrence Malick’s masterful rendition of the life of Pocahontas is a visual poem and the finest film of his career.
While it’s somewhat comforting to know that someone is still making horror movies like they did in the late 70s, does it have to be exactly like they did in the late 70s?
Steven Soderbergh’s bold experiment is noteworthy as much for its delivery as for the film itself.
Director Eugene Jarecki takes a new approach in explaining why America has been in a near perpetual state of war since WWII.
Thoughtful, funny portrait of provocateur Melvin Van Peebles manages to be entertaining while keeping its subject thoroughly at arm’s length.
Albert Brooks, in the part he was born to play, stars as himself in a fish-out-of-water tale that travels halfway around the world but goes nowhere.
Pierce Brosnan hits the mark as an assassin losing his cool in writer-director Richard Shepard’s refreshingly smart comedy.
| ★★★★★ | Perfection |
| ★★★★☆ | Outstanding |
| ★★★☆★☆ | Excellent |
| ★★★☆☆ | Very good |
| ★★☆★☆☆ | Good |
| ★★☆☆☆ | OK |
| ★☆★☆☆☆ | Pretty Bad |
| ★☆☆☆☆ | Poor |
| ☆★☆☆☆☆ | Blech! |
| No Stars | Fail! |