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Clive Owen, your standard-issue obsessed movie hero, fights for the length of The International to bring down the rogue bank IBBC, which has committed financial and war crimes on a vast scale. Don't waste your time, or your life, says bank biggie Armin Mueller-Stahl. "The system guarantees IBBC's safety - because everyone is involved." This corrupt bank will be protected, in other words, by all the other corrupt banks. And regulators. And politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The International: The Banker As Bad Guy | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...film she plays a boozing, pot-smoking layabout named Joleen, whose redeeming virtue is a fierce love for her daughter, Tara (AnnaSophia Robb). This, however, does not prevent her from deserting the child to run off with some anonymous dude. She dumps Tara on her brother, James (Nick Stahl), who promptly loses his job and his apartment, and decides to return to his father and the tumbledown family farm from which he and his sister long ago fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleepwalking: A Jaunt Down Mangled Main Street | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...Tara, a troubled but lovable12-year-old who grapples with beingneglected by her mother. Early in thefilm, Tara’s mother, Joleen (played byCharlize Theron, “Monster”), abandonsher for reasons that are intentionally ambiguousbut nonetheless unconvincing.Tara’s uncle, played by Nick Stahl (“SinCity”), must care for his niece but is illsuitedfor the job.Charlize Theron is the most recognizablename in “Sleepwalking,” but herrole is negligible and she adds little to thefilm. Although she plays a desperatelyunhappy woman who has spent most ofher...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sleepwalking | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...They gather at a surprise going-away party for young Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David): his gal pal Lily (Jessica Lucas), his would-be girlfriend Beth (Odette Yustman), his best bud Hud (T.J. Miller) and a pretty stray named Marlena Diamond (Lizzy Caplan). Early on, Hud is given the job of documenting the event with a video camera. The movie spends its first 20 mins. introducing you to a bunch of people, most of whom will be dead by min. 30. All you have to know: Rob had a brief affair with Beth and wants to get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corliss on Cloverfield: The Blair Witch Reject | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

...mysterious gunman (Mortensen again) and his connection with an ordinary family drawn into the web of mob intrigue. Anna (Naomi Watts) is a half-Russian midwife who's come into possession of a diary whose secrets could bring down the gang empire run by restaurateur Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl). She makes the mistake of giving the diary, which she can't read, to Semyon, and he assigns Nikolai (Mortensen), a hit man new to the gang, to keep an eye and a heavy hand on the midwife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Weird Canadian Geniuses at Toronto | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

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