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...chase scenes, Lehane's story was devised for the page, not the eye. Yet its psychological twists and the sense of emotional despair at its core were bound to attract moviemakers. It landed a big one: Martin Scorsese, fresh off his belated Oscar win for The Departed, the 2006 thriller starring DiCaprio as a cop with a double identity. (See the top 10 Sundance film festival hits...
Among films in limited release, Roman Polanski's favorably reviewed thriller The Ghost Writer took in $870,000 on just 43 screens. But the big race, not so much at the box office as in this week's Oscar pools, was between two nominees for the foreign-language Academy Award, both of them released by Sony Pictures Classics. A Prophet, Jacques Audiard's French prison drama, opened to a decent $170,000 in nine theaters in New York and Los Angeles, while Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon made $168,000 in its ninth week of limited release. That movie...
...first half-hour into a besieged-heroes scenario, in which David, Judy and Russell are hemmed in both by the zombie-ish locals and the military in hazmat suits, who have come to contain the plague at the cost of Ogden Marsh's very existence. It's an efficient thriller, with scare weapons ranging from the primitive (a pitchfork) to the apocalyptic (an A bomb). The acting is only horror-film-functional, and you might wish that our trio of renegades knew a few basic laws of the genre - don't go anywhere alone, and please leave your vehicle before...
...kitchens without ever firing a shot. These days, a tap-water plague would be more limited; in ritzier communities, the drinking glasses and the dog bowls are filled with Evian. But for its time, The Crazies functioned as a compendium of paranoia. Rarely has a conspiracy thriller exploited so many fears. (See the top 25 horror films of all time...
...Kevin Smith had made this movie - the man of wit, passion and sidewise humor who could turn a rant about airline personnel into an ad-lib apologia for being a tad on the heavy side. I wish he'd made that movie; I'd sure rather see the comedy thriller South by Southwest than the drab, flabby...