Thursday, November 14, 2013
"The Broken Circle Breakdown" sounds fairly enticing and interesting. But beware: the first half of the film is directed in the most conventional way, veering toward a Lifetime movie.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:00PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
em>Historic footage—from newsreels, TV stations once-live coverage, from several investigating commissions- has been edited, brilliantly into a coherent, important political film.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:40PMSaturday, November 2, 2013
This is one fine neo-noir, expertly directed by Ridley Scott with a host of superlative star turns from Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Javier Barden, Penélope Cruz, and Brad Pitt.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:38AMThursday, October 17, 2013
I Used to Be Darker is a movie of small pleasures, lots of them.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:40AMMonday, October 7, 2013
Mexico’s Alfonso Cuarón is among the world’s finest, most versatile filmmakers, and someone who—knock on wood!-- hasn’t yet directed a dud. GRAVITY is quite OK too, but in the secon…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:40PMMother of George has garnered a rarer-than-rare 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating from critics. Sorry to be the cynical spoiler.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
It’s heartening to see a major Catholic institution like Boston College get behind a documentary that, without mercy, attacks the Boston Diocese for its sinful coverup of priest abuse of c…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:26AMFriday, September 27, 2013
Director-writer Alexandre Moors, a Parisian living in New York City, builds a credible narrative story of the killer team in the months before their death spree.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:17PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Far From Vietnam dared say what no American documentary, even the most radical, would insinuate for fear of being accused of treason: in Vietnam, the Americans were the new Germans.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PMThursday, September 19, 2013
Oy gevalt! What a disappointment!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:32PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
I guess that’s the point. We all need to slow down, go back into nature, appreciate animal life, take long walks in the forest and in the mountains.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:22PMMonday, September 16, 2013
We’ve heard all these gripes before, in life, in books, on TV, and in piles of movies. But Kathryn Hahn, a newcomer to me, is so enthralling and right that Rachel’s alienation, her poor …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:29PMThursday, September 5, 2013
"Terraferma" is well-meaning, properly on the side of human rights, but also schematic and thematically heavy-handed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:38PMMonday, September 2, 2013
With a good critic like Peter Rainer, the opinion itself is the least interesting part of the review. It’s the contextualizing of the opinion. And the choice of words on paper.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:18PMMonday, August 26, 2013
By Gerald Peary My understanding of Martin Scorsese is that, as a tiny-sized asthmatic boy, he had no qualifications for sports, and, furthermore, not an iota of interest. Raging Bull, his s…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:16AMSaturday, August 24, 2013
Luis Buñuel would be proud of the scabrous scene in which the Davison clan sit down to supper and the civilized bourgeois meal turns to rot before our eyes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:50AMSunday, August 4, 2013
The bubbling-over sexuality of Paul Schrader's The Canyons is surely tongue-in-cheek, amusing in its semen-splashed excessiveness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:56PMMonday, July 29, 2013
"Into the Nightmare" is a great book, a monumental book, and an authoritative assimilation of forty years of what everyone, off and on the record, has argued about the Kennedy assassination,…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:21AMThursday, July 25, 2013
Critics have been more than kind to "Museum Hours," respectful of its sleepy intellectualism in a 2013 summer of brainless action flicks.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:56PMFriday, July 12, 2013
Does every semi-famous person deserve a full-length documentary about them?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:50AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
The based-on-fact A Hijacking is a deft, intelligent, tense and exciting melodrama from Denmark about a Danish ship that is taken by Somali pirates.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Russian intellectuals privately grasp that they must seem like jackasses to the outside world with their primitive attitudes about homosexuality, aligning not with Western Europe but with Ni…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:35PMSunday, June 16, 2013
Even with its audience-unfriendly head games and confusions, "Post Tenebras Lux" is an imposing spiritual work, and totally original.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:26PMSaturday, June 8, 2013
In Russia, the defenders of Nadia, Masha, and Katia have compared their plight to the victims of the infamous Stalinist “Show Trials” of the '30s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:11AMFriday, May 31, 2013
The filmmaker is annoyingly passive and star-struck, as the documentary’s subject, Ricky Jay, speaks to his chosen agenda: a wish to tell stories about his mentors and favorite magicians.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:23PMMonday, May 27, 2013
The astute filmmakers, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, seem not at all intimidated by Henry James’s formidable prose.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AMFriday, May 24, 2013
I confess: I also was among those who witnessed Peter Rowan play a zillion years ago, circa 1970, when he sang like an angel with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:02PMThursday, May 16, 2013
The only way to sort of enjoy "Family Tree" is with modest expectations; and indeed, this is the most modest of series, as Christopher Guest cuts his molars on TV with a program which rarel…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58AMSunday, May 12, 2013
Assayas’s splendid autobiographical feature is about a young man who refuses to turn his back on the radicalism of the '60s
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:20PMSunday, May 5, 2013
What about Bert Stern, the artist? He deserves credit for bringing fashion photography into the modernist moment in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:57AMFriday, May 3, 2013
A fantastic film? Not really. "In the House" is sometimes ingenious, but all the main characters are cold, arrogant, and off-putting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:52AM 
