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Puzzle | Review
Argentinean Natalia Smirnoff's Formulaic “woman’s pic†Puzzling To Say the Least
Review: Everything Must Go
It is perhaps no surprise that a director with a TV advertising background would make a movie so fraught with product placement (a 7-Eleven Slurpee is otherwise needlessly included in a scene that, due to strategic marketing, is also featured in the trailer), and which promotes the idea of corporate salesmanship as a route to self-awakening (Ferrell’s middle-school protégé absorbs advice from 'The Sales Bible,' whose book-cover -- more tie-in revenue? -- he holds conspicuously cheated towards camera). "I'm selling everything," exclaims Halsey, in a moment of what passes in this movie for epiphany, "and it feels great!"
Everything Must Go | Review
Will Ferrell’s indie vehicle fails as a comedy with heart, but might sell some PBR.
Review: City of Life and Death
Its visual immediacy amplified by often-expressionistic black & white cinematography, this genuinely disturbing, often moving epic depicts the “Rape of Nanking,” the ruthless 1937 siege of the Chinese capital city by the invading Japanese Imperial army
City of Life and Death | Review
Lu Chuan depicts Nanking atrocities with unblinking realism and poetic compassion.
