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...marriage with Chloe Hewett (Emily Mortimer). Complicating the equation is his brother in-law’s fiancée, Nola, with whom Chris first exchanges some rain-soaked afternoon delight, with subsequent forays into massage oils and standard-grade kink. The film then evolves into a meditative psychological thriller that wears its psychoses on its sleeve. The affair inevitably turns sour over broken promises and long, drawn-out arguments where both Nola and Chris reveal their own (and maybe Allen’s) neuroses. The motif that resonates throughout “Match Point” is the concept...
...EMILY MORTIMER Emily Mortimer's got game in Match Point, Woody Allen's new adultery thriller, and The Pink Panther, with Steve Martin, due in February...
...Tony Kushner-is being misunderstood by ideologues. It is about one of the teams Israeli assassins assigned to wreck vengeance upon the terrorists who wiped out eleven of that country's athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich. As such it functions as a well-made and suspenseful thriller. But that's not its main business. Neither is a hymn of hate to the Palestinian perpetrators of that heinous crime, which was the true beginning of modern terrorism, carried out in the full glare of the media spotlight. Spielberg believes the actions of the Israelis was fully justified...
...suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's, but must still pursue one last bloody job. You can imagine what Hollywood might do with that idea. What you can't imagine is what Eric Van Looy, a gifted Belgian director does with it in his low key, persuasively realistic thriller. His killer, whose moral sense is completely intact, no matter what's going wrong with his less-than-total recall, learns that his wet work is designed to protect a ring of child vicious child abusers, whose members include highly placed government figures. He begins leaving enigmatic clues about...
...videos, showing a scary intimacy with their comings and going are left at their door, so are violent, childlike drawings. It soon becomes clear that this is payback for a childhood sin of Georges's. But plot is not the point of writer-director Michael Haneke's subtle, creepy thriller, which leads finally to an act of violence that is one of the most suprising and unsettling in movie history. What the movie is primarily about is the subtle destabilization of the Laurent's comfortable world, their feeling that they are doing very nicely in the world and expect...