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Review of Force Majeure (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 23 Oct 2014

Force Majeure is ultimately about something not often explored in film: the consequences of male weakness in a world in which men are expected…

Review of Laggies (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 23 Oct 2014

Laggies itself isn’t exactly slow – its pace is pleasantly meandering – and it’s far from aimless, although what it’s aiming for…

Review of Citizenfour (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 23 Oct 2014

The larger point in Citizenfour is that dictatorships have always relied on the massive gathering of information in order to control their…

Review of The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 22 Oct 2014

Resembles nothing so much as a workmanlike TV crime thriller…

Review of Stardust (2007)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 Oct 2014

Danes doesn't quite fit into the mindscape – she's too bland for a human star – but Cox comes of age quite convincingly, De Niro is a hoot,…

Review of Everybody's Fine (2009)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Oct 2014

De Niro, trying his ordinary-guy best not to be mannered, gives one of his most mannered performances…

Review of Watchers of the Sky (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Oct 2014

Edet Belzberg’s documentary Watchers of the Sky, which was a decade in the making, reclaims the reputation of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Holocaust…

Review of Diplomacy (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Oct 2014

Since we all know that Paris wasn’t blown to smithereens, the tension here is not in the outcome but in how it was achieved…

Review of Fury (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Oct 2014

Brad Pitt gives one of his best performances as Sgt. Don “Wardaddy” Collier, a tank commander with a passion for killing Nazis…

Review of Birdman (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 15 Oct 2014

A movie with ambitions as high-flying as its superhero but a success rate decidedly lower to the ground…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 15 Oct 2014

A movie with ambitions as high-flying as its superhero but a success rate decidedly lower to the ground…

Review of Whip It (2009)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 Oct 2014

The derby sequences are just OK, and the conflict between Bliss and her uncomprehending parents, played by Marcia Gay Harden and (a fine) Daniel…

Review of Fool's Gold (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 10 Oct 2014

The treasure hunt in Fool's Gold is, of course, meant to be about more than money. But the only reason for this movie to exist is to make money…

Review of Kill the Messenger (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 09 Oct 2014

What hits home is Renner’s performance, which gives full weight both to Webb’s fierce, abiding love for journalism and his despair when…

Review of St. Vincent (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 09 Oct 2014

Schmaltz this thick requires a director who can at least make us feel that our tears are not being shamelessly jerked. But St…

Review of The Judge (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 09 Oct 2014

There is nothing surprising about the way this overlong movie, written and directed by David Dobkin, plays itself out…

Review of The Blue Room (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 02 Oct 2014

Amalric throws in flashbacks and flash-forwards between bedroom and courthouse (yes, there’s a murder), and I was reminded again why I prefer…

Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 02 Oct 2014

A few of the supporting players, including Kim Dickens, as a suspicious local cop, and Carrie Coon, as Nick’s twin sister, move beyond the…

Review of The Decent One (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 02 Oct 2014

Himmler in one of his letters says that “in life, one must be always decent, courageous and kind-hearted,” and “decent” is apparently…

Review of Keep On Keepin' On (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 02 Oct 2014

Since music is so much more than music between these two, their filmed sessions resemble not so much rehearsals as communions…

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