Utility filmmaker Steven Soderbergh presents a sleek spy thriller that lands on intrigue and misses on humor. Merciless British intelligence agents bite and claw through the dialogue (script credit to David Koepp), anamorphic cinematography protrudes the eye like an investigation lamp, and the jazzy drumkit score makes the 90 minutes breeze by. Like most Soderbergh... Continue Reading →
Tár Crescendos to the Top of the Year
"The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring kind of conformity." Filmmaker Todd Field’s previous masterpieces in In the Bedroom (2001) and Little Children (2006) invite the viewer behind the closed doors of a darker American suburbia where secrets fester and unethical decisions are made. On the surface, we may be quick to... Continue Reading →