In an age when being first threatens to preclude being best, film criticism struggles like everything else to serve a purpose without pandering to the need to grab eyeballs. The heap of reviews I've written over the last 12 months, often under the extreme deadline pressures of film festivals, aren't...
Read More »If "The Fast and the Furious" franchise borrowed liberally from 1980s action tropes and ditched plot in favor of sheer speed, it would probably resemble the mad hustle of "Drive," Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's thrilling foray into the Hollywood arena. Combing a memorably gritty Ryan Gosling...
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