“Motor” needs no words to thrill A highly stylized experiment, Potsy Ponciroli’s Motor City takes a standard revenge plot and gives it new life by omitting nearly all dialogue between its characters. Much like In a Violent Nature (2024), a slasher film with no music soundtrack, the omission of a narrative element we’ve come to […]
Mary Steenburgen
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Redford and Nolte make for a pleasant Walk
Robert Redford as Bill Bryson and Nick Nolte as Katz in A Walk in the Woods. Much like its two main characters, A Walk in the Woods is a film that’s comfortable and familiar. There are no surprises to be had while watching it; the platitudes it espouses we’ve heard ad nauseum and the events […]
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Cast not the only thing old in Last Vegas
Kevin Kline, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas and Morgan Freeman in Last Vegas. PHOTO COURTESY CBS FILMS Don’t you just laugh and laugh when you see a senior citizen unable to operate a newfangled gadget like a trunk latch in a car? Or how about when they act hip but are really out of touch […]
