by Felipe Rosa
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol: while the plot gets a bit too 007-ish, it still retains enough of the spirit of the original material to be pleasurable. It may, in fact, have the set piece that mostly resembles the old TV series. The light tongue-in-cheek tone is also welcome.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: action
by Felipe Rosa
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: its consistency with the first film is at the same time its biggest advantage and problem. While all the freedom taken with the characters should not surprise anyone by now, this feeling of more of the same can’t be shaken. Read also: Sherlock Holmes
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: adventure
by Felipe Rosa
New Year’s Eve: it’s amazing that, out of 8-10 stories, most of them simply don’t work, either because of the pedestrian writing or the heavy-handed acting. Not even the “outtakes”, that usually are the saving grace of bad comedies, work.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: romantic comedy
by Felipe Rosa
Raising Arizona: zany, absurd, preposterous, impossible and all the more entertaining for it, especially as it still retains a good amount of humanity. In a weird way, it reminds me of a Marx Bros. film. Adding to the whole is the very interesting, and appropriate, camera work.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: comedy
by Felipe Rosa
The Empire Strikes Back: where this sequel succeeds in beating the original is that, after the pure black and white, some slight shades of grey are introduced (the somewhat darker tone is also a positive novelty); where it does not is at the non-ending end, but just because we want to know the end, now. The excitement and the richness of the universe, as seen in the original, remain. Read also: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Star Wars: Attack of […]
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: action, fantasy, star wars
by Felipe Rosa
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: flawlessly crafted from top to bottom, with great cinematopraphy, costume and set design. The cast is absolutely perfect, serving the serpentine (pleasurably so) plot. Adult, intelligent movies like this one are hard to find.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
by Felipe Rosa
Young Adult: anchored in a masterful performance by Charlize Theron, this is a very pleasurable, if a bit short, film. Not that the story isn’t told (It is and well told, in fact), but more time with the characters would be welcome. It’s also very funny, in a way that is unlike what it was sold as.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: comedy, drama
by Felipe Rosa
A Dangerous Method: the main problem with this one is how academic it is. It may be my lack of knowledge and interest about the main subject, but of course that also means that the story was not made interesting enough for the non-initiated. The male actors are very good, but Keira Knightley wasn’t able to pull it off in her early scenes.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: biopic / historic
by Felipe Rosa
Shame: like its protagonist, beautiful on the surface (I honestly adore all those lenghty takes), but somewhat distant, even empty. Michael Fassbender’s and Carey Mulligan’s performances are very interesting to watch, but the characters are uncharted territory, almos; both are too monomaniacal.
Categories: Film reviews • Tags: drama
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