A Prophet (Un Prophète) Review
A Corsican version of "Goodfellas", combined with HBO’s "Oz", yields uneven results but is still sturdy enough to leave you satisfied.
A Corsican version of "Goodfellas", combined with HBO’s "Oz", yields uneven results but is still sturdy enough to leave you satisfied.
Director Olatunde Osunsanmi’s teasingly effective thriller aims to do for alien abduction what "Paranomal Activity" did for hauntings.
If you need another version of the Dickens holiday classic, featuring a multitasking Jim Carrey and improved but typically stiff motion-capture animation, this is the movie for you.
A 15-year-old wild child ends up involved with her mother’s boyfriend in this stark examination of disaffected lives.
Documentary about the life of famed (some would say infamous) attorney William Kunstler is handled in a top-notch manner by his daughters.
Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson star in a frustrating, near-great film that examines those that inform relatives of soldiers that have perished in combat.
An up-close glimpse of a performer rediscovering his creative fire, Kenny Ortega’s often mesmerizing account of Michael Jackson’s final months of song and dance is a portrait of the artist as an older man.
Stiff biopic of the legendary flier skims the surface of her achievements but never quite takes off.
Tepid, two-dimensional and decidedly homogenous, this Big Apple-based follow-up to "Paris je t’aime" is about as representative of the New York experience as a Statue of Liberty snow globe. And as romantic.
Suddenly, death by bloody neck doesn’t seem so unappealing.
| ★★★★★ | Perfection |
| ★★★★☆ | Outstanding |
| ★★★☆★☆ | Excellent |
| ★★★☆☆ | Very good |
| ★★☆★☆☆ | Good |
| ★★☆☆☆ | OK |
| ★☆★☆☆☆ | Pretty Bad |
| ★☆☆☆☆ | Poor |
| ☆★☆☆☆☆ | Blech! |
| No Stars | Fail! |