by Felipe Rosa
Albert Nobbs: a delicate, sad story, well told with wonderful performances by Glenn Close and Janet McTeer. However, I can’t help but wonder if Ms Close didn’t end up harming the movie; she has a very recognizable face, one that makes it hard to sell the character she is playing.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
by Felipe Rosa
Man on a Ledge: preposterous from beginning to end, this film embraces its B-movieness with gusto, in all major regards: screenplay (not much makes sense), acting (everybody is in sledgehammer mode). Some scenes are there for no reason at all.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: action
by Felipe Rosa
Sex, Lies, and Videotape: relatively efficient and interesting, but dry and clean as the houses and apartments the characters live in. The main issue is that the characters aren’t sympathetic nor their quandaries particularly engaging.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
by Felipe Rosa
Coriolanus: a grim tale as only The Bard’s can be. The clash of the wonderful language with the contemporary setting always makes for an interesting experience, further improved by the raw amount of talent involved.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
by Felipe Rosa
Red Tails: by being so clean, prim and proper, this film ends up doing a disservice to the story, that needed more bite to it; it ends up, despite all warnings, looking more like a work of fiction than someting based on reality. The battle scenes are exciting, in a video-gamey, SWotL sort of way.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama, war
by Felipe Rosa
Haywire: the most rewarding aspect is how straightforwards this film is. There’s no pretending it’s anything else: it’s an action movie centered in the fighting abilities of Gina Carano. She can throw a mean punch and kick, but not smile or read lines.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: action
by Felipe Rosa
Contraband: a standard actioner. There is not character in sight at all, only cardboard models running around and doing criminal deeds. Nevertheless, it’s fun enough if you happen to forget your brain somewhere.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: action
by Felipe Rosa
Hugo: a review doesn’t change much that I thought and said before. It brings a question up, however: given the nature of the story, how much of the good feelings come from being a film buff? It doesn’t change my perception at all, but it may change what I think other people may think of it. See what I wrote previously: Hugo
Categories: Film reviews, Revisit • Tags: fantasy
by Felipe Rosa
The Iron Lady: while the structure allowed Meryl Streep to once again give a wonderful performance, it also makes for a very uneven film. The narrative jumps feel artificial, and the whole informs surprisingly little about the subject. It almost feels like that it’s about no one in particular instead of one of the great leaders of our lifetime.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: biopic / historic
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