Blue Caprice
Crit
If this chilling film about the 2002 Beltway snipers has one failing, it's in making needlessly explicit the principle that hovers over the story throughout: that the phrase "senseless killings," trotted out for this episode as for every mass or serial killing of our time, is itself senseless.
Motiveless malice is at least as rare in life as it is in Shakespeare; that the motive may make no sense to us--that it might not even be clearly articulable by the perpetrators--doesn't negate what may be a perfectly consistent if alien logic. Which, to me, makes it lots scarier than if it were truly senseless.
Wadjda
Crit
Maybe this is how a revolution begins: with uptight grown-ups telling a headstrong young girl that she can't ride a bicycle. Warm and wise and gently subversive, the first feature film by a Saudi Arabian woman (Haifaa Al-Mansour) will be a very hard act to follow.
Trailers
- The Book Thief--Looks like more WWII sentimentality.
- Inequality for All--Up-the-1 percent documentary.
- Diana--Tabloid biopic stars Naomi Watts.
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