The Light Between Oceans, Complete Unknown, Spa Night, Klown Forever

The Light Between Oceans

Complete Unknown

Spa Night

Klown Forever

Quick notes on a weak and light weekend of movies:

The Seven Five, Sunshine Superman, Tomorrowland, Slow West, Good Kill, The Film Critic, When Marnie Was There

The Seven Five

Sunshine Superman



Tomorrowland

Slow West



Good Kill

The Film Critic



When Marnie Was There

Only one genuinely bad movie among the week’s new releases, but what a doozy:

The Top Ten Films of 2013: #6

#6

The Counselor

“The Counselor” is not only the title of Ridley Scott’s new film but the only name by which Michael Fassbender’s character is ever addressed.

12 Years a Slave

Great scenes make great films.

Prometheus

The first, great-looking hour of the 3-D and IMAX-enhanced spectacle "Prometheus" had me sitting straight up in my seat, nerve endings fully engaged by director Ridley Scott's vision of cave paintings by early man, spanning continents and millennia, pointing to a distant planet that may hold the secret of the origin of humanity. The script adverts to several of the most fundamental questions of our existence, from natural selection to the existence vel non of a deity to whether we are fundamentally good or evil.

Haywire

Steven Soderbergh's "Haywire" is yet another head-scratcher from the talented but often nomadically adrift director. I do admire Soderbergh's willingness to take on all different kinds of material, rarely repeating the same genre twice, but he's made an action thriller with no thrills and not much action, either.