Review: “Out of the Furnace”
by George Wolf Just in time for the holidays, a bleak look at desperation, blood ties, masculinity and loyalty. […]
George’s Movie Reviews
Reviews: “Frozen,” “Oldboy,” “Homefront,” “Philomena”
by George Wolf FROZEN Though the animated landscape has become more crowded since the days of Beauty and […]
Reviews: “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Delivery Man,” “Kill Your Darlings”
by George Wolf THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE When a movie runs two and a half hours, yet […]
Reviews: “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Best Man Holiday,” Blue Is the Warmest Color”
by George Wolf DALLAS BUYERS CLUB It took the man almost 20 years in the business to find […]
Reviews: “Thor: The Dark World,” “About Time,” “How I Live Now”
THOR: THE DARK WORLD by George Wolf The very superhero nature of Thor presents a catch-22 for his standalone […]
Reviews: “12 Years a Slave,” “Ender’s Game,” “Last Vegas”
12 Years a Slave Remarkable, isn’t it, that it took a foreign-born filmmaker, with the help of a mostly foreign-born […]
Reviews: “Bad Grandpa,” “The Counselor”
by George Wolf BAD GRANDPA If you can look past the entire scenes that Bad Grandpa lifts from […]
Movie Reviews: “Carrie,” “Escape Plan,” “The Fifth Estate”
by George Wolf CARRIE Back in ’76, Brian De Palma brought Stephen King’s first novel, Carrie, to the […]
Movie Reviews: “Captain Phillips,” “Machete Kills”
by George Wolf CAPTAIN PHILLIPS If the story of Captain Phillips wasn’t true, someone in Hollywood would have dreamed […]
Movie Reviews: “Gravity,” “In a World…”
by George Wolf GRAVITY The wondrous galactic epic Gravity delivers an unmatched cinematic achievement. Co-writer/director Alfonso Cuarón sets […]