Viola Davis

fences : a great play, not such a great film

Richard Cotter / 8 February 2017

Based on August Wilson’s Pulitzer and Tony award winning play, Denzel Washington’s production of FENCES never escapes its theatrical roots. Astonishing then that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nominated the film for Best Picture and Best …

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the disappearance of elanor rigby: her

Mark Pigott / 8 June 2014

In the opening scene Eleanor, in a fine performance by Jessica Chastain, attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge. The attempt is unsuccessful and she is pulled out of the water and taken to hospital.

The film then follows two

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prisoners

Richard Cotter / 15 October 2013

If we are, as Thoreau ejaculated, most of us, leading lives of quiet desperation, what happens when we are javelined into loud desperation?

This is the swampy antediluvian sphere examined in PRISONERS (MA) the latest film from Canadian uber director, …