Lawyer Mickey Haller works in a chauffeur-driven Lincoln Town Car rather than an office, although not enough is made of this fact. He is hired to represent a Beverly Hills playboy accused of brutally beating a prostitute.
It's an exciting, highly watchable thriller that's enhanced by McConaughey's considerable charm and charisma.
It’s fascinating and often uncomfortable viewing. The music is tremendous, and the drumming sequences are almost unbearably intense.
Director Damien Chazelle also directed La La Land and there are some similar motifs.
Extremely disappointing thriller directed by David Fincher and adapted from the popular novel by Gillian Flynn.
I’d heard great things about it, but it turns out to be oddly mannered and unconvincing.
The convoluted plot is difficult to follow but it doesn’t really matter because Humphrey Bogart (as private detective Philip Marlowe) and Lauren Bacall (as Vivian Rutledge) are so magnetic.
It looks stunning and some of the dialogue is dynamite.
Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening star as a couple whose marriage is disintegrating. Spacey plays an advertising executive whose midlife crisis manifests itself in an obsession with the best friend of his teenage daughter.
It’s compelling and disturbing stuff that ponders suburban ennui and the meaning of life.
Two pianist brothers (real-life brothers Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges) hire a female singer named Susie Diamond (Michelle Pfeiffer) to pep up their act. This decision revives their fortunes but introduces complications when romantic feelings develop between Susie and one of the brothers.
It’s a well-written film with plenty of humour and intelligence.
There are enough laughs to make it work, and it’s certainly superior to the second film, while lacking the freshness of the first. Zellweger is so appealing that she’s worth watching even when it’s not hilarious. And Emma Thompson adds depth as Doctor Rawlings.
Intensely powerful and watchable drama, brilliantly written and directed by J. C. Chandor.
Damaged by a large container that fell from a cargo ship, a man’s boat starts to sink in the Indian Ocean. He has to escape the doomed craft, only to then drift in a life raft with dwindling hope as he begins to reflect on his life and the decisions that got him to this point.
Giving arguably his greatest ever performance, Robert Redford is pretty much the film’s only actor and he’s alone for most of the time. There’s hardly any dialogue at all, making his struggle even more elemental and powerful.
There’s strong music and sound design, making it all seem very real. And there’s remarkable underwater photography, capturing both the beauty and the fierceness of nature.
I first saw this at the cinema, and when I got home I vowed never to go on a boat again.
