Four movies open this weekend that I'm interested in. But only one, Michael Clayton, has a high rating on RottenTomatoes.com. For those of you who don't know. RottenTomatoes.com adds up all the critics from across the nation and shows you what the general consensus is.
We Own the Night (52%)
"Too slow to be a guilty pleasure and too dumb to be an innocent one, We Own the Night doesn't say a lot except We Own a Lot of Scorsese DVDs."
Kyle Smith
New York Post
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (25%, that's not good at all)
"the most ornate episode of Saved by the Bell you'll ever see."
Sean O'Connell
Filmcritic.com
Across the Universe (52%)
"One of those movies some people will hail as artistic, imaginative and visionary, while the rest of us wonder if those people are high."
Willie Waffle
WaffleMovies.com
Michael Clayton (90%)
"It is just about perfect as an exercise in the genre. I've seen it twice, and the second time, knowing everything that would happen, I found it just as fascinating because of how well it was all shown happening."
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
I'll be seeing them all and I predict I'll enjoy each one...we'll see.
2 comments:
WE OWN THE NIGHT is good with terrific acting and a very creatively shot and directed, emotionally compelling car-chase scene.
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE is not as good as the first ELIZABETH but just as good-looking. Blanchett does a great acting job and the cinematography, art direction and costuming may be the best all year. But the script and director are not good at direction or unifying the events, and they dwell on a love triangle between Raleigh, Blanchett and her lady-in-waiting, which wasn't very interesting.
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE is good enough to experience for the visuals and style alone. It should be appreciated as an experimental film and a trippy dream, but it doesn't deliver in conventional places average people expect from movies.
I still think Julie Taymor is the best American woman director working today, I love her totally original approaches and unique visuals. I will see anything she does for the rest of her life.
She had me at TITUS!
I meant ELIZABETH's director isn't good at ACTION, not "direction."
He's good at directing actors and emotions, but not crafting action scenes/stories, which THE GOLDEN AGE tried to include.
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