Tag: movies

Taken

I’ve Loved You So Long

Jar City

Righteous Kill

Mediocre thriller that is not half as intelligent as it thinks and the twist is obvious from the very start. The performances of both Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro are good and are better than most of their work from the past decade but even they can’t elevate the inferior story.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Banishment

Bleak and tense Russian film directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev who had directed the equally bleak film The Return. The adult characters are full of inner turmoil which never quite breaks the surface and the tension builds throughout the slow moving film with little release even through the very dramatic scenes that normally act as release valves in films like this.

Somers Town

Sweet and fun little film directed by Shane Meadows that potentially could have been as dark as his previous works but is better for not being so.

The Wackness

Hellboy II: The Golden Army