Lone Survivor, The Invisible Woman, The Selfish Giant

Lone Survivor



The Invisible Woman

The Selfish Giant

A trio of discommendations round out the year in film. Call it Bleaker, Bleak House, Bleakest.

Kill Your Darlings

One can only watch others "eat life" for so long, and director John Krokidas tests the limits in his new Beat Generation piece "Kill Your Darlings," with Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg.

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

"Ain't Them Bodies Saints" director David Lowery has made a film that's lovely to look at but lacking in its storytelling.

360

I’ll admit it. I’m the target audience for “360.” From “Grand Canyon” to “Short Cuts” to such Oscar bait as “Babel” and “Crash,” I’ve always been a sucker for any halfway decent interconnected-vignettes movie. Director Fernando Meirelles keeps this globetrotting picture spinning breezily along, with some lovely visuals and a must-have soundtrack. “360” doesn’t play with foreground and background as interestingly as, say, “2 Days in the Valley,” and none of the stories resonates much after the credits roll, but I enjoyed the one involving Anthony Hopkins, Ben Foster, and Maria Flor, and the performances are universally solid. "360" is a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, adult entertainment.

Contraband

Mark Wahlberg stars as Chris Farraday, a Mark Wahlberg-esque Mark Wahlberg and top international smuggler who, not wanting to rot in stir with Pops now that he's married to Kate Beckinsale and has two athletic young sons, has gone straight installing alarm systems. But Kate's kid brother owes a whacked-out hood (Giovanni Ribisi, typecast) seven hundred large, so Chris has to make one last run to Panama for the huge score that'll solve everyone's problems. He enlists best bud Sebastian (Ben Foster) to reunite his team and watch over Kate and the kids (Sebby's also trying, but failing, "to bring you a show with no intoxication").