Margarita With A Straw (2015) Movie Critics Review
Production: Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Language: Hindi
Producer: Shonali Bose
Director: Shonali Bose
Stars: Kalki Koechlin, Revathy, Sayani Gupta, Hussain Dalal
Margarita With A Straw (2015) Movie Review: Margarita With A Straw, previously known as Choone Chali Aasman in the Indian market & Margarita With A Straw in the International market is a 2015 Indian film directed by Shonali Bose, starring Kalki Koechlin. Kalki plays a girl with cerebral palsy. The movie talks about her struggle with the normal activities in her life. Margarita, with a Straw is one of the five projects selected for the Work In Progress Lab of Film Bazaar 2013. The film made its world premiere on 8 September 2014 as part of the Contemporary World Cinema Programme at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival . The movie later went on to be screened at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia, BFI London Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival . It is expected to have a national release in India on 17 April 2015.
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True Story (2015) Movie Critic Reviews
Runtime: 100 min
Rating: Rated R for language and some disturbing material
Production: Regency Enterprises
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Rupert Goold
Stars: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones
True Story (2015) Movie Review: When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused
killer Christian Longo - who has taken on Finkel's identity - his
investigation morphs into a game of cat-and-mouse.
IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2273657
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How Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill) came to meet Chris Longo (James Franco) is an entrancing story of chance and merciless wrongdoing. The way its portrayed in True Story, however, uncovers less about the realities of Finkel and Longo's peculiar, genuine cooperation than it does the way of truth, and the relationship in the middle of correspondent and subject.As we're introduced to Finkel, he's in the middle of getting the boot from his job with The New York Times,
for conflating the experiences of a number of young African boys who
were used for slave labor in cocoa plantations along the Ivory Coast
into a single figure in his 2001 New York Times Magazine story
"Is Youssouf Malé a Slave?" The path that leads him from this disgrace
to sitting beside Longo might have been treated as a tale of redemption,
a talented writer finding his journalistic conviction in the wake of a
huge professional betrayal, but the filmmakers see this more as the
story of Finkel coming to terms with the hard, often conflicting truths
at the center of his profession.
First experience with Longo is a blaze of wild incident, as Hill's moderately aged correspondent is telephoned for a quote concerning Longo professing to be Finkel when he was captured in Cancun for the homicide of his family in Oregon. Whatever remains of the film bases on Longo's homicide trial and the composition of Longo's diary, which serves as the source material for and shares its name with Rupert Goold's film, yet the particulars of the dramatization and dialog depend on the subjectivity of verifiable and fiction narrating alike. In Goold and David Kajganich's script, Franco's cranky, pacified executioner jumbles the premise of his blame every step of the way, admitting to the homicide of two of his kids, yet not his wife, Mary Jane , or their third kid, guaranteeing a spotty memory of the occasions. The script sees Finkel as experiencing a kind of scraped area toward oneself, attempting to discover, and much in the same route as his editors at the Times, the escape clauses and breaks in the story that Longo apparently turns for him.
Finkel and Longo's relationship is reminiscent of the one that developed between Truman Capote and Perry Smith during the writing of In Cold Blood, a process that served as the basis of Bennett Miller's Capote. The similarities, however, don't end there, as Goold's aesthetic comes off as a barely thought-out variation of Miller's signature style, particularly in its cold, lugubrious vision of American landscapes. But whereas Miller's compositions and use of long takes in Capote invoke a haunting sense of how the past is at once philosophically weighty and essentially unknowable, Goold's images only go toward building a mildly glum atmosphere of impending dread. If True Story's copycat visual artistry illuminates nothing, at least its script is sincerely devoted to probing Finkel and Longo's odd partnership.
Longo is composed as a genial, if not precisely enchanting, man, and Franco's unpretentious conveyance brings out the phantom of a chilly, vital controller stowing away underneath the agreeability.Similarly, Hill plays Finkel as welcoming, but also slyly stirs up a
sense of greed and desperation in his character when money and
reputation are at stake. Their exchanges give the film an involving
dramatic backbone, whereas Goold's visuals keep things vaguely moody
without ever truly reflecting the violent emotions at the core of the
story. At one point, the director casts Franco's criminal in
shadow-drenched silhouette, an image that transparently suggests both
the character's emptiness and Finkel's—and in turn, our—inability to
truly know him. The script tangles outstandingly with the thought that any "genuine story" is to a great extent subject to the point of view of the storyteller, however the treat cutter inauspiciousness of Goold's visual strategies just offers the film up 'til now another acceptable cut of American genuine wrongdoing.
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Matt Brunson | Creative Loafing
Franco often comes across more as a guy peeved that someone tapped out
the frat-house keg than a tortured individual potentially engaged in
Machiavellian maneuverings.
Hill and Franco did not rehearse their scenes together beyond the first
table read, all the better to make their interaction more natural and
plausible. It worked.
Broken Horses (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime: 101 min
Rating: Rated R for violence and language
Production: Vinod Chopra Productions
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Stars: Sadie Alexandru, Scott Aschenbrenner, Chad Bishop
Broken Horses (2015) Critic Review: The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.
IMDB By 7.0 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2503954/
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The death of a bordertown sheriff played by Thomas Jane changes the ways of his two children in the ballpark of after 15 years in "Broken Horses."
After trying to make it as a classical violinist in New York, Jakey (Anton Yelchin, Chekov in the new "Star Trek" films) returns home before his wedding to accept a gift from brother Buddy (Chris Marquette). Simple-minded and highly impressionable, Buddy has been a hired gun and surrogate son for local crime kingpin Julius Hench (Vincent D'Onofrio).
Julius and Jakey alternate controlling Amigo, one to hold a faithful officer and the other to save their lives.
This western feels timeless despite signs of modernity such as the smartphone and the border patrol. The performances (especially by child actors) and production design deliberately echo golden-age Hollywood. Perhaps truth, justice and the American way simply haven't changed in half a century- at least in the eyes of Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the Bollywood director and co-writer at the helm here.
Generational resentment is a general subject; the great sibling terrible sibling dichotomy, a Bollywood installation, additionally plays out in "Broken Steeds."
While Chopra attempts to crack the American market with a slice of cinematic apple pie, he holds up a mirror to how Hollywood's tried-and-true narrative of vigilantism connotes who we are, at home and overseas.
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The Gunman (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime: 115 min
Rating: Rated R for strong violence, language and some sexuality
Production: Canal+
Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Countries: USA, UK, Spain, France
Language: English
Director: Pierre Morel
Stars: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James
The Gunman (2015) English Movie Critic Review- The Gunman Movie Directed by Pierre Morel. Under Production: Canal+. In Cinema Mar 20, 2015 with Stars: Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Javier Bardem
A genuine disappointment, given the talent involved, and a rare misstep for Penn, who can't save this moribund vanity project. Full Review
James Dyer | Empire Magazine
For a film with such a thinly worked conspiracy, The Gunman is inexplicably hard to follow, relying on lack of clarity to disguise by-the-numbers plotting. Still, if you're in the market for some well-wrought mayhem, you could certainly do a lot worse. Full Review
Daniel Eagan | Film Journal International
A cut above pure exploitation, The Gunman adds a dose of humanitarian medicine to the Taken formula. Full Review
James Mottram | The List
It's crass, clumsy and sometimes shockingly bad. Full Review
Chris Cabin | Slant Magazine
The lack of any visual ingenuity, reflexivity, or awareness of genre tropes diminishes the intermittent pleasures of the action's slightly involving kineticism. Full Review
Harvey S. Karten | Compuserve
If the matador got gored, this would be a marginally better movie, but Sean Penn's g.f. is too young for him, Javier Bardem is an embarrassment as a drunk, and the frantic fight editing is the usual standard stuff. Full Review
Chris Nashawaty | Entertainment Weekly
The kind of film that can't be bothered to do any more with its Spanish setting than have a showdown at a bullfight. Full Review
Run All Night (2015) Movie Critic Review
Rating: Rated R for strong violence, language including sexual references, and some drug use
Production: Vertigo Entertainment
Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Language: English
Director; Jaume Collet-Serra
Stars: Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Genesis Rodriguez
Run All Night (2015) English Movie Critic Review - Run All Night Movie Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Under Production: Vertigo Entertainment. In Cinema Mar 13, 2015 with Stars: sLiam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Genesis Rodriguez
IMDB by 7.3 :-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2199571/
Chicago Sun-Times | Richard RoeperEven though it feels as if we’ve seen this movie before, Run All Night is a stylish and kinetic thriller, with Neeson at his gritty, world-weary best, some of the coolest camera moves in recent memory and a Hall of Fame villain in the great Ed Harris. Full Review
The Playlist| Drew TaylorA film that double-underlines the fact that Collet-Serra knows exactly what to do with Neeson's on-screen persona in what is ultimately their most satisfying film yet. Full Review
Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranRife with familiar elements given something of a different spin, Run All Night manages to leave you out of breath but hungry for more. Full Review
TheWrap | Alonso DuraldeThere’s not much new in this tale of grim men staring, and then shooting, each other down, but this cast and crew know how to spin this yarn with efficacy and economy. Full Review
The New York Times | Andy WebsterThe movie, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, who directed Mr. Neeson in the efficient airborne thriller “Non-Stop,” has two saving graces: a tight script and terrific acting. Full Review
The A.V. Club | Ignatiy VishnevetskyEven though he never gets a grip on the over-complicated plot, the director hasn’t lost his knack for those elemental qualities that make a good action flick. Full Review
Tribune News Service | Roger MooreRun All Night doesn’t re-imagine a worn out genre so much as drop a quart of Marvel Mystery Oil into the crankcase of that vintage V-8 for one last ride through the Mean Streets. Full Review
Chicago Tribune | Michael PhillipsDirected, frantically, by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Brad Ingelsby, Run All Night promises a sprint punctuated by a lot of gunfire, and bleeding, and bodies. Mission accomplished. Full Review
Miami Herald | Rene RodriguezDespite the lack of substance, Run All Night is far better than those clunky "Taken" movies with their timid PG-13 ratings. If you’re gonna cut Neeson loose against the mob, a bloody R is the way to go. Full Review
Slant Magazine | Carson LundThis time around, in spotlighting Liam Neeson's fatigued charisma, Jaume Collet-Serra's formidable filmmaking chops have plateaued. Full Review
Washington Post | Michael O'SullivanDespite some cool camera work and the kind of noir-lite moral ambiguity that barely gets your shoes dirty (courtesy of a shallow script by Brad “Out of the Furnace” Ingelsby), the movie is the cinematic equivalent of junk food. It satisfies the craving for the sensation of nihilism, without its substance. Full Review
USA Today | Claudia PuigThese movies can't possibly be the best chance Neeson has got. Certainly he's offered more nuanced dramas that call on subtler acting skills and don't entail a mounting body count. Full Review CineVue | Adam LowesRun All Night's saving grace is, unsurprisingly, its lead actor who remains as watchable as ever despite the material he has to work with. Full Review
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Hogtown (2015) Movie Critic Review
Production: 9:23 Films
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Countries: USA, France
Languages: English, Mandarin, Spanish
Director; Daniel Nearing
Stars: Diandra Lyle, Elizabeth Austin, Gene Mui, Dianne Bischoff
Hogtown (2015) Movie Critic Review - Hogtown Movie Directed by Daniel Nearing. Under Production: 9:23 Films. In Cinema Feb 20, 2015 with Stars: Diandra Lyle, Elizabeth Austin, Gene Mui, Dianne Bischoff
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Chicago Tribune | Michael PhillipsLike the great, bittersweet Thomas Dyja account of Chicago's 20th century, "The Third Coast," Hogtown is hip to both the glories and the disgraces any great city can claim. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times | Bill StametsHogtown is the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date. Full Review
Cut! (2015) Movie Critic Review
Production: Psycho Rock Productions
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Home Release Date: Feb 23, 2015
Director; Richard LaGravenese
Stars: Allen Maldonado, Chris Moir, David Banks, David Rountree
Cut! (2015) Movie Critic Review - Cut! Movie Directed by David Rountree. Under Production: Psycho Rock Productions. In Cinema Feb 13, 2015 with Stars: Allen Maldonado, Chris Moir, David Banks, David Rountree
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Los Angeles Times | Martin Tsai
Rountree and Banks have come up with a nonsensical and pointless genre exercise. Full Review
Treehouse (2015) Movie Critic Review
Production: Aunt Max Entertainment
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Countries: USA, UK
Director: Michael G. Bartlett
Stars: Caleb Cox , Chance Nichols , Clint James
Treehouse (2015) Movie Critic Review - Treehouse Movie Directed by Michael G. Bartlett . Under Production: Aunt Max Entertainment. In Cinema Feb 20, 2015 with Stars: Caleb Cox , Chance Nichols , Clint James
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Wild Canaries (2015) Movie Review
Production: Little Teeth Pictures
Genres: Mystery, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Lawrence Michael Levine
Stars: Alia Shawkat , Annie Parisse , Donnetta Lavinia Grays , Eleonore Hendricks
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Digging Up the Marrow (2015) Movie Review
Production: ArieScope Pictures
Genres: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Adam Green
Stars: Adam Green , Alex Pardee , Dave Brockie , Don Coscarelli
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RogerEbert.com | Simon AbramsGreen, who plays a snotty version of himself, doesn't follow through on any of the ideas that make his film stand out. As a result, Digging Up the Marrow just uselessly lies there, like a cat during a heat wave. Full Review
Village Voice | Nick SchagerAfter poking fun at both Green's lack of originality and the hackneyed nature of found-footage shockers, Digging Up the Marrow merely resorts to climactic shaky-cam footage of people running through the pitch-black woods -- thereby becoming the very dull, clichéd thing it mocks. Full Review
The Hollywood Reporter | Frank ScheckA playfully self-reflexive exercise whose endless in-jokes will best be appreciated by only the most ardent genre aficionados. Full Review
The Dissolve | Mike D'AngeloDigging Up The Marrow is more of an affectionate comedy than a horror movie, despite a third act that features some tense moments and hostile critters. Full Review
The A.V. Club | Ignatiy VishnevetskyAdam Green’s hybrid mockumentary Digging Up The Marrow deserves credit for trying to re-think the done-to-death found-footage horror formula, even if its self-reflexive angle amounts to little more than a whole lot of unrealized potential. Full Review
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