Ex Machina Review
Coolly mysterious and breathtakingly stylish, Alex Garland’s directorial debut is a mesmerizing film.
Coolly mysterious and breathtakingly stylish, Alex Garland’s directorial debut is a mesmerizing film.
It’s the 1870s, and Bathsheba Everdene has a problem: There are three different men who deem her quality wife material and she is the strong, independent type.
Russell Crowe’s fine directorial debut is a labor of love that never quite settles on a genre.
The film opens with a little girl laying in a suitcase and a teddy bear being dropped onto her immobile body. How darling.
Vin Diesel and his crew take their 7th lap around the "Furious" franchise track with typically physics-defying results.
This oft-told tale of Effie Gray, a woman involved in an unhappy marriage in Victorian times, is almost amazingly without any dramatic tension at all.
The photography of Sebastiao Salgado is brought to life by Wim Wenders. It is alternately breathtaking and depressing, but always a tribute to both the skills and humanity of Salgado.
This prison comedy’s main offense is not being as funny as it could have been.
Argentina’s entry for Best Foreign film of 2014 didn’t win the prize, but it’s one of the best black comedies to hit the screen that year.
Documentary about James Randi covers his life from magician to exposer of hucksters and does so in a way that can’t help but make you like the man.
| ★★★★★ | Perfection |
| ★★★★☆ | Outstanding |
| ★★★☆★☆ | Excellent |
| ★★★☆☆ | Very good |
| ★★☆★☆☆ | Good |
| ★★☆☆☆ | OK |
| ★☆★☆☆☆ | Pretty Bad |
| ★☆☆☆☆ | Poor |
| ☆★☆☆☆☆ | Blech! |
| No Stars | Fail! |