10 results for "Michael O'Sullivan"
Movie review: Torture, murder done as farce? Don't laugh
Friday, April 26, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe most important thing you need to know about the action comedy "Pain & Gain" is not that it's a Mark Wahlberg movie or a Dwayne Johnson movie, or even that it's inspired by real events.
Movie review: 'Lore' poignant study of postwar life
Friday, April 12, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe protagonist of "Lore," a powerful and haunting drama set in Germany immediately after the country's defeat in World War II, is a teenage girl.
Movie review: 'Chasing Ice' takes a long view
Friday, December 21, 2012 at 12:00 AM'Chasing Ice" aims to accomplish, with pictures, what all the hot air that's been generated on the subject of global warming hasn't been able to do: Make a difference.
'Flat' tells Jewish grandparents' weird Nazi tale
Friday, December 7, 2012 at 12:00 AMA quietly brilliant study in cognitive dissonance, "The Flat" is a documentary look at Holocaust denial, but not the kind you might think.
Movie Review: 'Last Ounce'? Your mind is already made up
Friday, September 14, 2012 at 12:00 AMIt isn't hard to imagine the intended audience for "Last Ounce of Courage."
Movie review: Tricky triangle in stirring 'Take This Waltz'
Friday, July 20, 2012 at 12:00 AMFilmmaker Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" is the anatomy of a love triangle, in some ways reminiscent of her sensitive directorial debut, "Away From Her."
Movie review: 'For Greater Glory' comes at the cost of tedium
Friday, June 1, 2012 at 12:00 AMAn epic dramatization of a little-known chapter of Mexican history called the Cristiada – in which the country's Roman Catholics rebelled against a government crackdown on religion
Movie review: Parts of 'Men in Black 3' greater than its sum
Friday, May 25, 2012 at 12:00 AMThere are a couple of real pleasures in "Men in Black 3," the third installment of the sci-fi adventure-comedy series about cops policing a shadow world of aliens living among us
Decidedly not blockbusters, these are summer's other films
Friday, May 25, 2012 at 12:00 AMWhen it comes to summer movies, there are the dark horses that are less easy to categorize. Defiant in their singularity, they include the surreal ("Ruby Sparks," "The Odd Life of Timothy Green") to films inspired by real eve...
Movie review: 'Addiction' has a little fun with a deadly topic
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 12:00 AMIt's easy to assume that Victor DeNoble, the tobacco-industry whistleblower at the center of the solid and watchable documentary "Addiction Incorporated," (opening today at the Crest) has got to be the same guy who inspired the sim...
