Crime Reviews

Crime

Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone

I’m not a fan of the Affleck boys and their Boston-centric, f-word laden style of moviemaking, but I have to confess that I was mightily impressed by Gone Baby...

Jennifer
Mystic River

Mystic River

Alrighty, I’ll readily admit that I’ve been sitting on this review for awhile. I saw Mystic River several months ago, and since then have had pounded into me the...

Linda
Ménage (Tenue de soirée)

Ménage (Tenue de soirée)

We meet the three characters of Ménage just as they apparently meet each other in a dinner club. Antoine (Michel Blanc) and Monique (Miou-Miou) are having a huge fight...

Linda
Chinatown

Chinatown

According to screenwriting guru Syd Field, Chinatown may well be the most brilliant screenplay ever written. I’m inclined to think he’s right. Despite having watched the film about five...

Jennifer
And Justice for All (1979)

And Justice for All (1979)

Isn’t it weird how some films reflect the times in which they were made, and others just become dated? And Justice For All suffers from the latter. I had...

Jennifer
The Departed

The Departed

Shortly after seeing the original Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs a few years back, I heard that the rights had been optioned by Brad Pitt, of all people, for...

Linda
Frailty

Frailty

So, though I never thought it possible, Bill Paxton may have single-handedly redeemed himself with this one film. The best thriller of the year that nobody went to see,...

Linda
Zodiac

Zodiac

David Fincher’s Zodiac is a curious film. An extremely earnest recounting of the serial killer murders in the Bay Area in the late 60s and early 70s, the film...

Linda
9 Dead Gay Guys

9 Dead Gay Guys

Right off the bat, a movie like 9 Dead Gay Guys is an attention-getter. Gasp! So saucy and un-politically correct! It’s British and hip! It has flashy editing and...

Linda
Night Train (2009)

Night Train (2009)

Despite the fact that I flat-out couldn’t finish The Polar Express and have no idea how it ends, I feel like Night Train would make a perfect sequel.  It’s...

Jennifer
Training Day

Training Day

Denzel Washington is just so damn good that he can play a bad guy so despicable and sleazy that it nonetheless takes most of a film for the audience...

Linda
Transsiberian

Transsiberian

Woody Harrelson, doing his best “aw-shucks” American persona, and Emily Mortimer (flawlessly hiding her British accent) play Roy and Jessie, a married American couple returning home from a save-the-children...

Linda