Sunday, January 4, 2015

Briefly Noted - January 2015


Non-Stop (2014) ✭½ 


The first 20 minutes or so are actually pretty good, but then it all goes to shite in a hurry. My vote for Stupidest Movie of the Year.




The Dreamers (2003)✭✭✭


I avoided this movie for 10 years. I could have continued that trend and not missed a thing. Meh.





Mystery at the Moulin Rouge (2011) ✭✭½ 


Not even the divine Emilie Dequenne can save this dumb thing.





Living Afterward (2011) ✭✭✭✭ 


Haneke-style meditation on a family's grief. Gray, bleak, minimal, moving.

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