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...Tell the Story, a documentary exploring what compels war-zone journalists—licensed idiots, as one reporter describes himself and colleagues—to risk their lives for the sake of a few pictures. Mavroleon was one of two journalists featured who were killed in action after the film??€™s completion, but its main protagonist is Dan Eldon, who was stoned to death by a violent Somali mob in 1992. He was 22. The portrait is wrenchingly intimate—the film??€™s host is Eldon’s sister, Amy Eldon, and its producer...
True, Thirteen Ghosts doesn’t pretend to be anything more than a low-budget horror flick released in time for Halloween, but it doesn’t even fare very well at that. Perhaps owing to the film??€™s (at times intentionally) laughable dialogue and generally unoriginal direction, genuine frights are few and far between. The visual effects and set design do have their moments, but the ghosts themselves too often look like tired haunted house props. And while the story holds the audience’s attention well enough, its supposed surprise twist is rather...
...story is one of a young, brazen and destitute Eric Brockovich (Julia Roberts) who takes the American legal system by the scruff of its neck, moralizes it, defeats a corrupt and malicious business conglomerate and makes no small fortune for herself and others. At the film??€™s start, Brockovich is combing the classifieds to no particular avail—an image that becomes an important visual trope. Then, after incurring debilitating injuries from a car accident, Brockovich seeks the legal expertise of small claims attorney Ed Masry (Albert Finny), who fails her outright. Holding Masry personally responsible...
...self-estimation in the case of Riding in Cars With Boys is well-founded. The story is real and gritty—what could, given the right turns of phrase—be the stuff of a great autobiographical novel, but what is perhaps too pedestrian for the film??€™s slate. Unless director Penny Marshal pulls out all cinematographic stops and carries the film on aesthetic sails alone, the prognosis for Riding in Cars looks grim. At the very least, their pusillanimous, even deceitful, refusal to submit to critical treatment will be a self-fulfilling prophesy of sorts...
Films like The Last Castle are especially disappointing because almost all of the elements for a good film are present: a good director, great actors, an incredible composer, an experienced cinematographer—the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, the studio forgot one major ingredient for a successful film??€”a good script...