Wonderstruck, Only the Brave, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), The Paris Opera, Jane

Wonderstruck

Only the Brave

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

The Paris Opera

Jane

A mixed bag as we approach the last two months of 2017 and what should be a plethora of Oscar contenders:

Elle, Bleed for This, Manchester by the Sea, Nocturnal Animals, The Edge of Seventeen, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Elle

Bleed for This



Manchester by the Sea

Nocturnal Animals



The Edge of Seventeen

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk








Capsules on a mixed week of movies:

War Dogs, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, The People vs. Fritz Bauer, Morris from America, Imperium

War Dogs

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

 

 

 

 

 

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

Morris from America

 

 

 

 

Imperium

 

 

 

  

Quick capsules on a mixed bag of movies in another relatively light August week:

That Awkward Moment

A slow start to 2014 continues with writer-director Tom Gormican's fish-nor-fowl "That Awkward Moment," which produced no laughter and only stony silence from the small audience at my late show.

The Spectacular Now

 

I pity the high school seniors of today, who get as their pre-graduation romantic comedy James Ponsoldt’s vapid “The Spectacular Now,” whereas we in the Class of 1990 got the greatest teen movie of modern times, Cameron Crowe’s “say anything...,” which boasts a hundred scenes, moments, lines of dialogue, and characters truer than anything in Michael H. Weber’s false and phony script.

21 and Over

The less said, the better about "21 and Over," a puerile and woman-hating exercise in idiocy that contains exactly one un-P.C. chuckle.