Casa Grande
by Felipe Rosa
Casa Grande: Fellipe Barbosa’s film has an intriguing starting point; however,
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
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Laura (1944)
by Felipe Rosa
Laura: Otto Preminger spins a good, engaging yarn, an elegant mix of noir and romance. Much of the air of
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: noir, romance
Lady in the Lake
by Felipe Rosa
Lady in the Lake: Robert Montgomery’s film is marred by its stylistic choice of telling it in first person. The choice
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: noir
The Wire – Series
by Felipe Rosa
The Wire: every once in a while, something comes up that forbids one to be coy about it; in that spirit,
Categories: Non-Film Reviews • Tags: crime, drama, top
Murder, My Sweet
by Felipe Rosa
Murder, My Sweet: Edward Dmytryk creates a competent, if ultimately unspectacular, noir; the plot is appropriately convoluted,
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: noir
Furious 7
by Felipe Rosa
Furious 7: it would be overly generous to say that James Wan is telling a good story (as much as it would be naïve to expect it to be one);
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: action
A Most Violent Year
by Felipe Rosa
A Most Violent Year: J. C. Chandor presents a taut, thrilling film; while its story is small, specific to a particular time and place, it
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: crime, drama
Cinderella (2015)
by Felipe Rosa
Cinderella: for better or for worse, Kenneth Branagh pays as much respect to the original material in this film as he did to Shakespeare early in his film career;
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: fantasy, romance
Inherent Vice
by Felipe Rosa
Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson created a film that is, at the same time,
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: comedy, crime, drama
Fifth about The Seventh 