Articles by Sarah D. Bunting
I just love everyone in this movie so much. I really don’t have anything else to say about it.
It’s 93 minutes long, but if Cocteau had told the Beast to spit out his damn lines instead of dragging every utterance of “Belle” out to “Baaaayyyyyllll(ih),” he could have brought it in under an …
Not really a movie, exactly; it’s a filmed performance of three short plays/monologues by Neil LaBute. I’ve defended LaBute in the past, but his apparent need to flay the skin off human nature for …
A lot of Woody Allen’s earlier stuff doesn’t hang together very well, but that’s what I like about it — he’s just throwing sight gags and surrealism and Catskills humor at the wall and seeing …
Did anyone else watch this? Entertainment Weekly gave it a crap review, but I liked it a lot — probably because Noth is a total fox with those chops. Mmm, Noth. It’s …
Sarah Silverman, I salute you. It’s kind of a cheap laugh, but she doesn’t bail out of it, I’ll give her that. …This one’s a bit long, given the material, and I don’t …
A good movie with a great cast that is hella hard to watch. If you rent it, definitely listen to the commentary track, which can be a bit inside but is still really informative. …
It’s very long and very bleak, but quite well done for this kind of thing — not too mawkish, doesn’t hit the notes too hard. Kingsley is excellent. (1/3/06)
I’d never seen it all the way through before. I’d expected to feel kind of “eh” about it, but I like Peter Riegert’s dry delivery more and more, and I really liked Boon and …
Heeeeee hee hee. Not every joke works, but enough of them do, and Tim Robbins’s hair alone is worth the price of the ticket. High-larious. The best part is watching Paul Rudd …