Justin Timberlake goes sci-fi in ‘In Time’ and Gus Van Sant showcases more young adults living with heavy problems in ‘Restless,’ this week on DVD and Blu-ray.
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2011
Albert Nobbs, a passion project for actress Glenn Close, was consistently overlooked or left unfunded for years and only through her tireless struggle has it finally made it to the screen.
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David Cronenberg delivers a character study centered around three people central to the birth of psychoanalysis. Michael Fassbender stars as Carl Jung, who would expand on the ideas of Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) to create analytical psychology. Jung’s breakthrough comes through his relationship with Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a mental patient whom he is able to help by applying Freud’s methods.
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‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ is supposed to be about a precocious little boy learning from his grief, but it comes out all wrong, despite the presence of Tom Hanks.
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‘Shame’, director Steve McQueen’s sophomore feature, tells the story of Brandon, a New York advertising exec and sex addict, whose wayward sister, Sissy, threatens to destroy his world’s delicate balance.
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Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle are the best odd couple of the year and ‘The Guard’ is a very funny black comedy. In the spotty ‘Higher Ground,’ Vera Farmiga plays a woman struggling with her devout Christianity over three decades of her life.
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Dee Rees crafts a script and film that is filled with vibrant characters and exciting visuals, and Adepero Oduye brings Rees’ main character, Alike, to life in ‘Pariah.’
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‘Carnage’ is a hilarious new comedy starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, and Christoph Waltz as upper-middle-class parents in Brooklyn who are a little too self-obsessed.
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Starting the new documentary ‘Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel’ with spotty, scratched-up film, director Alex Singleton sets the tone for the film right from the get-go.
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‘Straw Dogs,’ out now on DVD and Blu-ray, is a remake of a controversial 1971 movie from Sam Peckinpah starring Dustin Hoffman. ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ is a new horror movie produced by Guillermo del Toro.
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Trey Hock’s take on the best films of 2011 shows that even in a bad year for film there can be at least 10 standout motion pictures.
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The 45th Annual Kansas City Film Critics Awards were held last night. Here are the winners as picked by the second oldest critic’s organization in the country:
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‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ is the movie adaptation of John Le Carre’s 1974 novel about the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the ladder in the British secret service. Gary Oldman plays the man charged with figuring out who the mole is. The audience, however, is challenged with trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
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Before I started tallying up the movies that made the biggest impression this year, I thought it may have been a weak year for film. It turns out I was dead wrong. Although only one film this year made my hair stand up on end, there were plenty of moving, adventurous, and original films in 2011.
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‘War Horse’ is essentially a trite, manipulative soap opera run through the lens of World War I to give it a lot of historic and artistic sensibility.
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