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Tag Archives: Crime
Arbitrage (2012) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A crook stuck between multiple crises
Some of the most engaging movies I have seen tell their stories through unlikable characters I can hardly identity with or care about, and these movies remind me that we do not always have to like or identify with the … Continue reading
West of Memphis (2012) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Their long way to the justice they deserve
What is told in the documentary “West of Memphis” is still outrageous and infuriating to watch although I have already heard and known a lot about one evil crime which shocked the whole town, three suspects who were wrongfully accused … Continue reading
Passion (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A kinky thriller from Brian De Palma(you guess it)
“Passion” is the latest kinky thriller from Brian De Palma, the first-class master of trashy guilty pleasure. He is back in his sensational territory again with his usual bag of tricks, and the result is as much as what we … Continue reading
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Three life stories in Schenectady, NY
“The Place Beyond the Pines” attempts to present us three life stories together in its intimate and wide approach. While not all of its elements work well and its last act is relatively unsatisfying, it is an engaging drama about … Continue reading
Compliance (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Banality of Evil at a fast food restaurant
“Compliance” is a small one-situation drama which is simultaneously absurd, outrageous, horrifying, and disturbing in its cold depiction of dark human behaviors we are quite capable of if we are at the right place and the right time. It is … Continue reading
Spring Breakers (2012) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : And then it becomes no fun to them
“Spring Breakers” is a gaudy exercise in callousness and recklessness. All these girls in the movie want is to get out of their boredom, and they certainly get it when they arrive in St. Petersburg, Florida. While usually wearing bikinis … Continue reading
Fast & Furious 6 (2013) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : Outrageous & Preposterous as usual
At the certain point during one of the action sequences in “Fast & Furious 6”, the audiences around me burst into a big laugh because they could not simply believe what happened on the screen. When one character was hurled … Continue reading
Get Shorty (1995) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : He’s well-qualified to be a Hollywood producer
It is a jungle out there in Hollywood, and “Get Shorty” presents the various kinds of animals residing at the lower strata of that jungle through a pungent but cheerful satire about one nutty pre-production process. Almost everyone in the … Continue reading
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Bernie (2011) ☆☆☆(3/4) : He’s the guy for your funeral
What a nice guy Bernie Tiede is. He is so nice and sincere that you cannot possibly imagine him doing something bad to you. Based on a weird real-life crime story which was quite stranger than fiction, Richard Linklator’s quirky … Continue reading
End of Watch (2012) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A gritty mix between cop drama and found footage
Once upon a time, there was a movie called “The Blair Witch Project”(1999), and its unexpected success generated a sub-genre so-called “found footage”. While this low-budget genre has been continued through other successful cases like “Paranormal Activity”(2007), there also have … Continue reading
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