The new remake of the popular book ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is well acted with a decent mystery, but is just a bit too stuffed.
‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ is an excellent Cold War thriller, but its slow pace and careful style leave it feeling like it’s trying hard to be something else.
‘Young Adult’ is the new collaboration of director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, and is both darkly honest and pretty darn funny.
The ‘Sherlock Holmes’ sequel is a boatload of action-filled fun, with enough cleverness and “wit” to satiate even the proverbial barrel of monkeys (I enjoy mixing metaphors).
CliqueClack sits down with the director and star of ‘Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy,’ Tomas Alfredson and Gary Oldman, to talk about the remake, the Cold War, and the relevance of the story in modern times.
‘The Sitter’ is a reasonably funny, if utterly by the numbers, movie in the classic “redemptive and vulgar jerk with a heart of gold story.”
‘Hugo’ is the first true family film from Martin Scorcese – a warm tale of the meaning of purpose and the purpose of meaning.
