It’s funny, the clusters you get on a randomized list — and I don’t mean Hereafter and The Sweet Hereafter both in the same flight. Here, it’s films that, on a different day, might have …

Sarah 37, Death Race 19; 17 of 24 categories completed
I liked it more than I’d expected to, but the guiding structural principle — the three plot strands that converge at the end — felt like …

And thus endeth the Racism Is Bad, Mmmkay Oscar trifecta.
…I shouldn’t be flip. It’s an important story. Alas, it’s filmed as just that, An Important Story, and the weight of that responsibility presses all the …

by Mark Blankenship
The Movie: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Crush Object: Jude Law
The Story: Reporter John Kelso (John Cusack) thinks he’s got a simple assignment in Savannah, Georgia: cover a rich eccentric’s …

It’s not an unlikeable movie; it has good bits, and Eastwood’s reaction shots as Harry during certain exchanges almost imbue The Enforcer with a point.
But the plot is both excessively convoluted and not meaty enough …