Reviews THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY. It’s not absolutely necessary to see The Best Man (1999) to get something out of this; I managed to enjoy it without even knowing it was a sequel. However, since it eschews helpful exposition on the way to a ponderous two-hour-plus running time, the uninitiated (me included) may spend some […]
Michael Fassbender
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Risky Stunts
Reviews THE COUNSELOR. Cormac McCarthy will go down as one of America’s immortal literary voices. But that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a great screenwriter. Case in point: this new venture with director Ridley Scott. Sure, it’s got McCarthy trademarks in spades. But his tendencies toward misanthropy, deceptively simple prose (at least in his later work), […]