Black Mass (Review)
Like the character it portrays, Black Mass avoids flash and grandeur and joins a long tradition of good-if-not-great gangster movies. American moviemakers have been making gangster movies since the beginning of movies — Raoul Walsh’s 1915 Regeneration may have been the first — and there’s never any shortage of gangster stories, true or fictional. But sometimes filmmakers try to say something important about America or...
The Gift- Review
Look, I probably shouldn’t say this. Nobody tell my boss, o.k.? Don’t read this review. In fact, don’t read any reviews about The Gift and just go see it as soon as you can before some loudmouth at the office or gym ruins it for you. Seriously. This is a film that you need to go into fresh as possible because not only is The Gift a fresh take on the endless, ageless stories of revenge, it’s also probably the best movie of the summer....