“Downfall” (2004), which depicts the final days of Adolf Hitler holed up in a bunker in Berlin at the end of the European campaign of World War II, is a frightening film, although I don’t mean frightening in a horror film kind of way.
Most of us take comfort in the belief that we are not like
I had a weird reaction as I watched "Argo" (2012). The longer the film went on, the more I became convinced that things didn't go the way that events was depicted in the movie, but also the more I enjoyed the film. It brings to mind what I always say about reality, which is that
I am not a movie snob. I am inclined to be bored with silence, dislike black and white and unimpressed with "arty" films. Despite these high odds stacked against it, I enjoyed the colorless and (almost) soundless "The Artist" (2011). I really liked it a lot.
"The Iron Lady" (2011) is maddeningly frustrating. You watch the movie mesmerized by the performance of the lead, yet realize, as the movie stumbles forward, that the script and the direction of the film makes it entirely forgettable if it wasn't for that performance.
