Showing posts with label Lynne Ramsay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lynne Ramsay. Show all posts

Thursday, February 9, 2012

We Need to Talk About Kevin






There had been talk of an Oscar nomination for previous winner Tilda Swinton for her role as the mother of a child who grows up to be a school shooter in Lynne Ramsay's "We Need to Talk About Kevin," but neither Swinton's one-note performance nor Ramsay's structurally flawed film matches the power and complexity of Maria Bello's work in the similarly themed "Beautiful Boy."