Like sands through the hourglass, so are the superheroes of our lives.
Tag: Mark Ruffalo
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Your Movie Is an Act of Self-Negation, Charlie Brown! plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The Boston Globe’s pedophile priests investigation gets dramatized in Spotlight
I’m a junkie for newspaper dramas, from Park Row to All the President’s Men to Shattered Glass, and Spotlight promises to be a good or even a great one, with a gifted writer-director and a powerhouse cast. Thomas McCarthy—whose dramas The Station Agent (2003), The Visitor (2007), and Win Win (2011) mark him as one […]
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The rise and fall of a techno DJ, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable sceenings
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Your moment of Zen, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Our top picks for fall movies
Our top picks for fall movies: Young Charlton Heston in a Chicago-shot Julius Caesar, Jon Stewart’s directorial debut, and more
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But is The Normal Heart good?
TimeLine Theatre gets Larry Kramer’s important The Normal Heart pumping.
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Margaret: teach your children well
In Margaret, a teenager learns more than her teachers can ever convey
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Margaret: pretending I’m working at the movies
Film critic for a day: Deanna Isaacs on Kenneth Lonergan’s film, Margaret
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Are you there, moviegoers? It’s me, Margaret.
Kenneth Lonergan returns (finally) with his follow-up to You Can Count on Me.
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Johnson shows his Bloom
“Brick” director Rian Johnson talks about his new caper film “The Brothers Bloom,” starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Rinko Kikuchi, at two Landmark screenings Saturday.