Showing posts with label Antoine Fuqua. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antoine Fuqua. Show all posts

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Southpaw





Another fully committed performance by the gifted Jake Gyllenhaal sets the boxing family drama “Southpaw” above most pretenders to the throne.

Friday, September 26, 2014

The Equalizer, Art and Craft

The Equalizer
Art and Craft





Are you as tired as I am of Russian villains? Of the lazy assumption that Russians in movies must be avaricious, amoral, ruthless psychopaths? Then again, just about everything in “The Equalizer” feels reflexive and hoary. It could have been made ten years ago, or longer.