This black-and-white Polish Oscar winner is shot with a spare, understated elegance, but sometimes at the expense of narrative depth.
Tag / 2013
Touch of Sin, A (2013)
Continue reading →A sprawling and inconsistently-paced effort with multiple stories and unrelated characters whose sum is lesser than its parts.
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Continue reading →One of the most intricate of screenplays ever written in recent years paired with an extraordinary performance by Adele Exarchopoulos places this powerful yet sensitive drama in a class of its own.
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Continue reading →The Coens pull off one of the finest films of the decade in this soulful and enigmatic effort starring a broodingly good Oscar Issac.
Gravity (2013)
Continue reading →The vision and genius that director Cuaron and cinematographer Lubezki bring to the table is sensational, creating one of the best space movies ever, even if it is light on narrative.
Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The (2013)
Continue reading →A mixed bag that makes you wonder if things might be better if the journey was shorter, or at least more briskly-paced.
Trance (2013)
Continue reading →Boyle’s latest might just be too trippy and heady for mainstream audiences, but it is an assured effort that will bound to get people talking.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Continue reading →Not McQueen’s most engaging effort, but certainly his most important work to date.
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