Movies Reviewed
A Most Wanted Man | The Hundred-Foot Journey
Magic in the Moonlight | Lucy
A Most Wanted Man | The Hundred-Foot Journey
Magic in the Moonlight | Lucy
A Most Wanted Man
Movie Tipper Rating: A+
Oscar Watch for Philip Seymour Hoffman
Movie Tipper Rating: A+
Oscar Watch for Philip Seymour Hoffman
This performance by the great Philip Seymour Hoffman (in his last serious role from the mind of the equally great John le Carré) playing a dour German master spy is nothing short of enthralling. ‘A Most Wanted Man’ is a taut, precise, slow-boiling, tense look at the spy game taken to its highest level by Hoffman’s central performance. And ‘no’, before you ask I’ll just put it out there; he does not appear to be stoned though he doesn’t look healthy either. Consummate actor that he is; he simply folds his own flushed infirmity into the character. Bearing in mind that Hamburg was in fact the place where Mohamed Atta and his cohorts planned the 9/11 attacks; this look at the dark machinations of the spy game has a resounding ring of verisimilitude.
Buy Tickets: http://www.fandango.com/amostwantedman_170527/movieoverview Rated: R (for language) Metacritic Score: 74 (I think this is a bit low) http://www.metacritic.com/movie/a-most-wanted-man Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 91% (that’s about right) http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_most_wanted_man/ Official Site: http://amostwantedmanmovie.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AMostWantedMan Twitter: https://twitter.com/AMostWantedMan |
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Movie Tipper Rating: A
When worlds collide in the food world, the hundred feet between two battling restaurants and the closely held ideas of what it really means to be a great chef get really personal in this enjoyable, ultimately joyous film. When the gastronomic East meets epicurean West the story is a celebration of what it means to cook and savor exceptional meals. It’s not food porn so much as people obsessed by food romanticized, deconstructed and beautifully revealed.
Like in the 1996 film ‘Big Night’ (which basically got the ball rolling for cooking centered character driven movies) Lasse Hallström's camera lingers over sumptuous dishes and many an ‘ahh’ is sighed after sampling the fare. With an imperious Helen Mirren (who is so good that she actually seems French without being a parody of a Frenchwoman) in command, the film has both a glamorous hauteur and a golden beating heart.
Buy Tickets:
http://www.fandango.com/thehundredfootjourney_170267/movieoverview
Rated: PG
Metacritic Score: 55 (insulting, and just wrong)
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-hundred-foot-journey
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 65% (I’d call that way too low)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hundred_foot_journey/
Official Site(s):
http://www.100footjourneymovie.com
http://www.dreamworksstudios.com/films/the-hundred-foot-journey
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/100FootJourneyMovie
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/the100ftJourney
Like in the 1996 film ‘Big Night’ (which basically got the ball rolling for cooking centered character driven movies) Lasse Hallström's camera lingers over sumptuous dishes and many an ‘ahh’ is sighed after sampling the fare. With an imperious Helen Mirren (who is so good that she actually seems French without being a parody of a Frenchwoman) in command, the film has both a glamorous hauteur and a golden beating heart.
Buy Tickets:
http://www.fandango.com/thehundredfootjourney_170267/movieoverview
Rated: PG
Metacritic Score: 55 (insulting, and just wrong)
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-hundred-foot-journey
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 65% (I’d call that way too low)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hundred_foot_journey/
Official Site(s):
http://www.100footjourneymovie.com
http://www.dreamworksstudios.com/films/the-hundred-foot-journey
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/100FootJourneyMovie
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/the100ftJourney
Magic in the Moonlight
Movie Tipper Rating: A
Don’t listen to those nay sayers! The problem is that Woody Allen sets a very high bar when you compare his films to one another, but compare this film to virtually any out there and it’s miles more interesting and charming and even beautifully photographed than any I can name. Not laugh out loud funny, this actually very smart philosophical treatise is wrapped in whimsical comedy and is one long pleasurable smile from end to end. This is a date movie, a movie for people that would never even dream of taking out their phone and texting during a movie, an intelligent movie, it’s a movie with Colin Firth - and basically he’s playing Mr Darcy again, how about that! Like Allen’s famous love letter to old love Mia Farrow ‘Alice’ he lightly plays with movie magic to create illusions that the characters are taken by; but - like in that earlier great movie - the real illusions are the ideas that we cling to even when reason dictates otherwise. Remember that the quality of a ‘minor’ Woody Allen film is something most film-makers dream in their sleep of attaining.
Buy Tickets:
http://www.fandango.com/magicinthemoonlight_174535/movieoverview
Rated:
Metacritic Score: 54 (absurd)
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/magic-in-the-moonlight
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 48% (ridiculous)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/magic_in_the_moonlight/
Official Site:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/magicinthemoonlight/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/MagicInTheMoonlightMovie
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MMoonlightMovie
Buy Tickets:
http://www.fandango.com/magicinthemoonlight_174535/movieoverview
Rated:
Metacritic Score: 54 (absurd)
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/magic-in-the-moonlight
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 48% (ridiculous)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/magic_in_the_moonlight/
Official Site:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/magicinthemoonlight/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/MagicInTheMoonlightMovie
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MMoonlightMovie
Lucy
Movie Tipper Rating: B+
Movie Tipper Rating: B+
A stylish actioner from the reliably stylish Luc Besson with an entirely credible Scarlett Johansson kicking some bad guy ass, evolving into a super-human and then kicking some more ass. One critic said it was a comic book movie without a comic book. That is true and it’s a good thing. ‘Lucy’ is a sleek, punchy caper with at its heart a self-conscious sense of humor that ends up being entirely rewarding. Like Besson’s game-changing 1990 film ‘La Femme Nikita’ (which this in some ways resembles) the director’s gushing love for a tough take-no-prisoners woman is at the core of this smart film.
Buy Tickets:
http://www.fandango.com/lucy_170271/movieoverview
Rated: R (for strong violence, disturbing images, and sexuality)
Metacritic Score: 60 (unreasonably low)
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/lucy
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 65 (a tad low I would say)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lucy_2014/
Official Site:
http://www.lucymovie.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/LucyTheMovie
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/LucyTheMovie
Buy Tickets:
http://www.fandango.com/lucy_170271/movieoverview
Rated: R (for strong violence, disturbing images, and sexuality)
Metacritic Score: 60 (unreasonably low)
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/lucy
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 65 (a tad low I would say)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lucy_2014/
Official Site:
http://www.lucymovie.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/LucyTheMovie
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/LucyTheMovie