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 […]
George's Movie Reviews
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 […]
Movie Reviews: “Don Jon,” “Rush,” “Enough Said,” “Baggage Claim”
by George Wolf RUSH Yes, it’s clichéd irony, but here goes: Rush, a movie steeped in the world […]
Movie Review: “Prisoners”
by George Wolf Pre-game warmups aren’t usually part of the moviegoing experience, but Prisoners may require a […]
Reviews: “Drinking Buddies,” “The Family,” “Insidious: Chapter 2,” “Austenland, “Thanks for Sharing”
by George Wolf DRINKING BUDDIES Hey look! It’s that hottie and that cutie, and the guy from Office […]
Reviews: “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” “I Declare War”
AIN”T THEM BODIES SAINTS The screen fills with the sepia image of a bygone Texas. Sinewy lovers quarrel and […]
Reviews: “Getaway,” “The Act of Killing”
THE ACT OF KILLING by George Wolf Surreal, perverse, curious and horrifying, The Act of Killing demands to be […]