You Probably Haven’t Seen Anything Like ‘Annette’ This Year
Annette is weird, it’s a musical, it’s over two hours long, and it features a marionette as a main character. It’s about as far from a Marvel movie as you can get.
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Fitting finale for the ‘Dark Knight’
Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy has the best qualities of comic book adaptations. After a shaky cinematic history, Gotham’s Dark Knight finally gets the respect he deserves with Nolan’s three films: Batman Begins, The Dark...
Visual storytelling a key strength in ‘Contagion’
It all starts with a cough. Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) is returning from a business trip to Hong Kong and chatting on the phone at an airport bar. She seems to have a little...
Contagion lacks focus
Have you ever thought about what would happen if a bat started eating a banana, dropped the uneaten portion into a pig farm, a pig ate the rest and then a chef handled the...
Public Enemies shows what a summer blockbuster is supposed to be
The year is 1933. America is in the heart of the Great Depression. Gangsters have style. The Giants are still in New York. American automobiles are tops in the world. Bank robbers are legends....