Vice

Bale’s Dick and Rockwell’s Bush don’t rock well enough to bail out Mckay’s Big concept which falls Short as present day politics Anchor down one Man’s character study. Stylistically opposed of its titular character, Vice’s vice is its reliance on heavy-handed set-pieces to set up its inherently obvious unitary message.

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Lars and the Real Girl

Glossy Gosling falls for an even shinier girl, played brilliantly by Megan Fox. Simple film operates on a gimmicky premise, but is sustained by the heart which the cast injects into the girl, and the film as a whole. Mortimer and Arquette breathe further life into this blow-up character study.

Easy A

Classmates socially stone Emma for alleged sexual indiscretions in The Scarlet Podcast, compelling look at teens today and mediocre attempt at Hawthorne modernization. High school viewers may be jealous, not of the leads pseudo-sex-life, but rather of greatest parents ever, Tucci and Clarkson. Don’t you forget about excessive film references.

Whatever Works

Woody Allen writes a fantasy for himself and casts the person most like him to play the lead. David excels in the role and is aided by an excellent supporting cast. Allen’s film-referential jokes work better here than ever before and he succeeds in creating his most likeable assholes yet.

Shutter Island

Scorsese finally proves that ‘no,’ he doesn’t only make good movies. Interesting continuity editing lets Dicaprio showcase ability to spontaneously change position of props, facial expressions, and entire body between camera angle cuts. Insanely flawed story reflects loyalty of film to source material. Decent film if zero thought is applied.