I've seen Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street. You, Mr. Steven Gaghan, are no Martin Scorsese, and your new movie Gold is no Wolf of Wall Street.
Nice rotund gut, though, Matthew McConaughey.
I reviewed this for Slant Magazine here.
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The Last Days of Winter 2012
In addition to praising Starless Dreams to the skies in this Kinoscope piece, I also offered a few brief comments on Mehrdad Oskouei's two earlier, shorter documentaries about young children in juvenile detention centers, this one and It's Always Late for Freedom (2007).
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Andrei Rublev 1966
Seven episodes in the life of the titular medieval Russian icon painter, all of which add up to one of the most vivid and detailed cinematic depictions I've ever seen of the life of an artist. From naive optimism about human nature to an abject despair that leads him to swear off art-making for about 15 years, then finally a renewal of his passion with the help of a former monk and a young bellmaker (whose obsessive quest to finish…
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His Girl Friday 1940
Going into finally seeing this classic screwball comedy for the first time ever, I knew I was in for fast-paced dialogue and endlessly fresh verbal wit. The film certainly didn't disappoint on those fronts. Rarely have I seen a movie so brilliantly demonstrate the possibility of dialogue as pedal-to-the-metal action; I'm still reeling from having all that overlapping dialogue blast into my face for such a sustained period of screen time, especially in its second half!
I hadn't, however, expected…
