Hugely busy week for releases, and all of my attention is on the Rob Ford Experience. Six-word review time, starting now:
About Time: Get stuffed, Richard Curtis. Get stuffed.
All the Wrong Reasons: Good cast, shame about the movie.
Dallas Buyers Club: Utterly conventional narrative invigorated by artistry. [Glenn]
Diana: Leave Hollywood, Oliver Hirschbiegel. Save yourself. [Susan]
The Disappeared: All is Lost without the vision.
Ender’s Game: Starship Troopers without the irony.
Free Birds: Something about CG animated turkeys, right? [Phil]
Hi-Ho Mistahey!: Alanis Obomsawin lectures us on schools.[Rad]
Inequality for All: Robert Reich lectures on American economics. [Jose]
Last Vegas: The Hangover, but with old dudes. [Rad]
The Last Pogo Jumps Again: Punk doc, but with old dudes.
Man of Tai Chi: Keanu Reeves directs action movie. Whoa. [John]
Spring & Arnaud: Old artists grow old together. Awww. [Reviewed by me in this week’s web column, along with some other things.]
And that’s it! Gotta run. I have a date with the Mantle twins this afternoon, you see …