by
Julien Faddoul
I Heard You Paint Houses ***
A mob hitman recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
Long, muted, deliberate crime film; a kind of compendium of its director’s major themes of avarice and jealousy, murder and guilt, loyalty and betrayal, identity and regret. It is a film about the rumination in between crimes, with searing set-pieces of uncharacteristic laconism, and immaculate performances from the three leading maestros (Pesci especially). One gets the sense that Scorsese is atoning for something, tearing the film from himself as an act of purgatory.
d – Martin Scorsese
w – Steve Zaillian (Based on the Book by Charles Brandt)
ph – Rodrigo Prieto
pd – Bob Shaw
m – Robbie Robertson
ed – Thelma Schoonmaker
cos – Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell
p – Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Irwin Winkler, Gerald Chamales, Gastón Pavlovich, Randall Emmett, Gabriele Israilovici
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Ray Romano, Harvey Keitel, Jesse Plemons, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, Kathrine Narducci, JC MacKenzie, Craig Vincent, Gary Basaraba, Jack Huston, Domenick Lombardozzi
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ***
Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and a journalist for Esquire.
A shapeless and slightly mawkish script is salvaged by expert direction from Heller, whose typically light touch and surrealistic interludes profoundly complicate any sense of sentimentality.
d – Marielle Heller
w – Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster
ph – Jody Lee Lipes
pd – Jade Healy
m – Nate Heller
ed – Anne McCabe
cos – Arjun Bhasin
p – Youree Henley, Leah Holzer, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub
Cast: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson, Enrico Colantoni, Maryann Plunkett, Tammy Blanchard, Wendy Makkena
Ford v Ferrari *
An American car designer and a race-car driver battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford and challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.
Lame, occasionally engaging sports drama with really nothing on its mind that cannot be found within the confines of any stock racing movie. The over-the-top performances don’t help.
d – James Mangold
w – Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Jason Keller
ph – Phedon Papamichael
pd – François Audouy
m – Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
ed – Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker, Dirk Westervelt
cos – Daniel Orlandi
p – Peter Chernin, James Mangold, Jenno Topping
Cast: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Caitriona Balfe, Noah Jupe, Scott Rapp, Josh Lucas, Ray McKinnon, Stefania Spampinato, Wyatt Nash
Charlie’s Angels
When a systems engineer blows the whistle on a dangerous technology, Charlie’s Angels from across the globe are called into action, putting their lives on the line to protect society.
More of an excavation of a checklist for feminist inventory than a movie, attempting to cover material from the current zeitgeist as some kind of discourse. The whole affair is both dumb and dull.
d – Elizabeth Banks
w – Elizabeth Banks, Evan Spiliotopoulos, David Auburn
ph – Bill Pope
pd – Aaron Haye
m – Brian Tyler
ed – Alan Baumgarten, Mary Jo Markey
cos – Kym Barrett
p – Doug Belgrad, Elizabeth Cantillon, Max Handelman, Elizabeth Banks
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska, Elizabeth Banks, Jonathan Tucker, Patrick Stewart, Djimon Hounsou, Sam Claflin
Pain and Glory **
A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
An Almodovar self-dissection, in which a great deal of moping around takes the place of any kind of compelling drama. Themes of maternal discomposure and moralistic guilt; as always, there is pleasure in the details.
wd – Pedro Almodóvar
ph – José Luis Alcaine
pd – Antxón Gómez
m – Alberto Iglesias
cos – Paola Torres
p – Agustín Almodóvar, Ricardo Marco Budé, Ignacio Salazar-Simpson
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano, Penélope Cruz, César Vicente, Asier Flores, Cecilia Roth
Frozen II *
The characters from the previous film are going far in the forest to know the truth about an ancient mystery of their kingdom.
An ugly and boring racket, with no believable stakes or fluid narrative trajectory. Were this an attempt at legitimate musical storytelling, instead of a corporate entity designed to feed the culturally malnourished, no one would give a damn. Only the effects animation involving organic elements – which the studio perfected with Moana (2016) – come close to rousing.
d – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
w – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Marc E. Smith, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
ph – Tracy Scott Beattie, Mohit Kallianpur
pd – Lisa Keene, David Womersley
m/ly – Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
m – Christophe Beck
ed – Jeff Draheim
p – Peter Del Vecho
Cast: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Sterling K. Brown, Evan Rachel Wood, Ciarán Hinds, Jason Ritter, Rachel Matthews, Alfred Molina, Jeremy Sisto, Martha Plimpton, Alan Tudyk
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