It is uncommon for directorial debuts, such as Maggie Gyllenhaal’s strikingly distinctive "The Lost Daughter," to be as sure handed as this film is.
The film 'The Guilty,' starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is a tedious exercise in overwrought mood lighting and forced emotional response through facial expressions.
Black Mass is not necessarily a bad mob film, but it’s a mob film too concerned with emulating the cool of other, better mob films to develop any real voice of its own. Director Scott Cooper clearly had Martin Scorsese on the brain as he put this film together, but Cooper brings none of his own creative intent to the table. David O. Russell recently aped Scorsese with even wilder abandon in Americ...[Read More]