Post-Thanksgiving Roundup
December 10th, 2006
It’s a rough time of year to be a film critic. For the last two weeks, we’ve been cramming year-end releases and rewatching earlier favorites in anticipation of today’s vote for the prestigious NYFCO awards. Here’s a list, arranged by rating, of everything I’ve seen since Thanksgiving.
- Inland Empire - *****
- The Queen - *****
- Volver - ****
- Children of Men - ****
- Factotum - ****
- The Dead Girl - ****
- Jesus Camp - ****
- Half Nelson - ***
- The Motel - ****
- Curse of the Golden Flower - ***
- The Good Shepherd - ***
- Backstage - ***
- Lassie - ***
- Our Brand is Crisis - ***
- Sherrybaby - ***
- Old Joy - ***
- The Good German - **
- The Departed - **
- Notes on a Scandal - **
- Perfume - **
- The Illusionist - **
- Wordplay - **
- Babel - *
- World Trade Center - *
- Apocalypto - *
[tags]lists, roundup, movies, film[/tags]
January 8th, 2007 at 10:48 am
[…] After December’s mad movie binge, we’re catching up with some TV. This HBO show, which carries the names of John Milius and Michael Apted in the credits and is shot in Cinecitta, improves vastly on the production values of I, Claudius, though not necessarily on acting and drama. It begins earlier–season one tells of Julius Caesar’s rise and fall from the Battle of Alesia to the Ides of March. Interwoven with the familiar tales of the powerful are the stories of two common legionnaires, which adds an element of surprise to recorded history. Blood flows freely, betrayal, lies, murder and literal backstabbing are as common as dirt, and there’s incest, too. Cleopatra (who doesn’t much resemble Liz Taylor) has only been in an episode or two so far, but I’m sure we’ll see more of the drug-addled conniver when season two starts on January 14. *** […]
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:43 am
[…] major studio but by their “indie” distributor Warner Independent. It was drowned out in December’s mad movie rush, and now the official site is hocking the DVD as “just in time for mother’s […]