The Movie Tipper Recommends That You Seek Out These Films
Movies Reviewed
Boyhood | The One I Love | Chef | Love is Strange
Oscar Watch for Director Richard Linklater
Boyhood
Oscar Watch for Best Picture
Boyhood
Movies Reviewed
Boyhood | The One I Love | Chef | Love is Strange
Oscar Watch for Director Richard Linklater
Boyhood
Oscar Watch for Best Picture
Boyhood
Boyhood
Movie Tipper Rating: A++
Oscar Watch for Director Richard Linklater
Oscar Watch for Best Picture
Movie Tipper Rating: A++
Oscar Watch for Director Richard Linklater
Oscar Watch for Best Picture
The real deal, as they say this movie is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. ‘Boyhood’ is a fictional film about a real boy created by filming for a week or so every year of actor Ellar Coltrane’s life with Linklater’s long time collaborator Ethan Hawke and an incandescent Patricia Arquette over 12 long years. This is is an absolutely unique narrative experiment that never draws attention to itself so natural is the unfolding of the film and so gentle is its observation of the minutiae of life itself. This is certainly one of the most ingenious conceptions of how to make a film anyone has ever executed. That Linklater pulled it off is a triumph. No, this is not just reality television or anything like the ‘up’ series; this is smart utterly engaging filmmaking with actors at the top of their game engaging with a talented newcomer to create something that is transcendent. The miracle of the art of ‘Boyhood’ is how Linklater created his script to somehow enfold and enrich real-life events that surround his characters that he could never have anticipated when he began the project over 14 years ago.
If you have never darkened the door of a movie art house, now is your chance. You will not be baffled or condescended to. The astonishing freshness of this film will pull you in and you will wish that you could drop in on ‘Boyhood’s’ Mason for the rest of his life. You will also find yourself part of the 2015 Academy Awards conversation because ‘Boyhood’ just might snatch both Best Picture and Best Director statues from the grasp of assembled heavyweights like David Fincher, Clint Eastwood or Paul Thomas Anderson.
Buy Tickets (right now!):
http://www.fandango.com/boyhood_173860/movieoverview
Rated: R for language including sexual references, and for teen drug and alcohol use
Metacritic Score: 100 (yes, you are reading that right)
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/boyhood
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 99% (yes, it is that good)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boyhood/
Official Site(s):
http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/boyhood
http://boyhoodmovie.tumblr.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/boyhoodmovie
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/IFCFilms
The One I Love
Movie Tipper Rating: B+
It is almost not possible to write about this film without spoiling the clever conceit that is its driver. Calling it a Sci-Fi film doesn’t exactly make sense either, more like a very soulful fantasy film without any elves or dwarves. As a date movie it would certainly guarantee some interesting over coffee conversation, especially a date of young married people. If you don’t want to throw down the coin at the art house then stream it, that’s fine. Just see it.
Buy Tickets: http://www.fandango.com/theoneilove_173588/movieoverview Rated: R Metacritic Score: 64 (absurdly low, completely wrong) http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-one-i-love Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% (still a bit low I think) http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_one_i_love/ Official Site: http://radiustwc.com/releases/the-one-i-love/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoneilovefilm Twitter: https://twitter.com/theoneilovefilm |
Chef
Movie Tipper Rating: B+
A visionary chef is misunderstood by a tone-deaf restaurant owner and an air sniffing critic; so far so ho-hum, but writer/director Jon Favreau and his crack ensemble take this tiny premise and create an enormous, engulfing, tantalizing and bitter-sweetly funny film about what it actually means to be a person who creates things and what the push and pull of that life (its rewards and its wonder) is all about. In fact, like Linklater Favreau is an artist of the small, of the moment and of the nuances of human interaction. This too would be a lovely date movie or you can wait, but then do rent it. It’s charming.
Buy Tickets: http://www.fandango.com/chef_165720/movieoverview Rated: R Metacritic Score: 68 (a bit stingy) http://www.metacritic.com/movie/chef Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88% (ok fine) http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chef_2014/ Official Site: http://chefthefilm.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChefTheFilm Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChefTheFilm |
Love is Strange
Movie Tipper Rating: B
This film is very timely and very, very sweet. The performances of the central leads (Alfred Molina and John Lithgow) as two men in a committed relationship for decades finally making a vow and then watching their world disintegrate are touching and deftly human. I do think that critics falling over themselves to show support to real gay people in the real world facing real life obstacles have over-rated this film a bit, and there’s even a possibility that its weepiness will draw it into the Oscar race (though for now I’m not putting it on my Oscar Watch list). When it pops up as a rental then savor it, it’s small and lovely and extremely heartfelt.
Buy Tickets: http://www.fandango.com/loveisstrange_173479/movieoverview Rated: R (no idea why, I mean really this film is very tame) Metacritic Score: 84 http://www.metacritic.com/movie/love-is-strange Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 96% (a bit generous I would say, still) http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/love_is_strange_2014/ Official Site: http://www.sonyclassics.com/loveisstrange/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loveisstrangemovie Twitter: https://twitter.com/loveisstrangemv |