Aug 16th, 2008
by Jürgen.
Yes, there is a once-great filmmaker out there who desperately needs to be stopped before he completely destroys his formerly inspired legacy with a series of mechanical, lazy cash-ins that only blinkered fanboys could pretend to like. But it’s not George Lucas.
Marcy Dermansky
Ed Gonzalez
Andrew O’Hehir
Vicky Christina Barcelona. Woody Allen, 2008. *
Jan 21st, 2007
by Jürgen.
Atrocious. If we’d seen it in time, this movie would have been assured one of the top spots on the list of worst movies of 2006. It’s not just that Scarlett Johannson and Josh Hartnett are fatally miscast–nobody here is pulling off the 40s tough guy/dame thing. Hillary Swank does a mediocre Kate Hepburn impersonation, [...]