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Category Archives: Movies
August 2017 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the August issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo on July 25. Anthropoid Sean Ellis streamlines the facts and fortifies the action for his film about the 1941 assassination of … Continue reading
June 2017 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the June issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo last week. Afterimage Andrzej Wajda’s final movie is a fitting study of an artist under pressure, a role Wajda himself has … Continue reading
“From the Journals of Jean Seberg” and “Jean Seberg: American Actress,” Nov. 1999
I recently realized that almost all of the movie reviews I wrote for the Asahi Shimbun in the 90s and early 00s are not available on the Internet, so I will remedy that by slowly, methodically posting them here on my blog. … Continue reading
April 2017 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the April issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo on March 25. Captain Fantastic Road trips vivify the great American indie movie, and while Matt Ross’s feature is light as … Continue reading
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Tagged Batman, Chris Pratt, Danis Tanovic, Danny Boyle, Dardenne Brothers, Dev Patel, Hailee Steinfeld, Irvine Welsh, Isabelle Huppert, Jafar Panahi, Jennifer Lawrence, Ken Loach, King Kong, Natalie Portman, Robert Frank, Scarlett Johansson, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassell
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February 2017 movies
Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the February issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo last week. Allied A return to the “real romances” that were so central to Hollywood’s primacy in the 40s, Robert Zemeckis’s … Continue reading
“Adaptation” Aug. 2003
I recently realized that almost all of the movie reviews I wrote for the Asahi Shimbun in the 90s and early 00s are not available on the Internet, so I will remedy that by slowly, methodically posting them here on my blog. … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Charlie Kaufman, Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep, Nicolas Cage, Spike Jonze
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Best movies 2016
As everyone has already noted many times, it was a pretty terrible year all around. As far as movies go, it’s difficult to tell if it was any worse or any better than average. Since I didn’t see as many … Continue reading
