AsidesSome Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The current cinema

By August 9, 2012January 12th, 20268 Comments

Red-Hook-Summer-4

This isn’t a bad week for movie open­ings. The Campaign made me laugh out loud quite a bit dur­ing its tidy 85 minutes. The Bourne Legacy had a better-than-decent head of spy-movie steam going for most of its run­ning time. But the most inter­est­ing, chal­len­ging, pur­pose­fully frus­trat­ing, and idio­syn­crat­ic­ally enga­ging pic­ture open­ing this week as far as I can tell is Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer (pic­tured above: from left, Lillie Marshall, Toni Lysaith, Jules Brown, and Clarke Peters). And it was shot five minutes from my house. All reviewed for MSN Movies. 

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8 Comments

  • That Fuzzy Bastard says:
    August 9, 2012 at 8:58 am

    I feel like “the most inter­est­ing, chal­len­ging, pur­pose­fully frus­trat­ing, and idio­syn­crat­ic­ally enga­ging pic­ture” could describe 4/5 of Lee’s out­put. Dude remains the mad­dest geni­us out there.

  • Grant L says:
    August 9, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    Correction corner: in the Bourne review it says Robert Ludlow instead of Ludlum.

  • Brad Olson says:
    August 9, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    when is someone going to put Jeremy Renner in a film with Jeremie Renier?

  • JC says:
    August 9, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    It’s inter­est­ing how Glenn’s reviews, as of late, are almost always more gen­er­ous than the Metacritic aver­age. I don’t remem­ber this being the case when he wrote for Première. But it’s all good: I’d rather folks have a “glass half-full”, as opposed to “glass half-empty”, atti­tude anyways.
    (Hmmm…now that I think of it, was Metacritic even around when Glenn wrote for Première?)

  • Petey says:
    August 10, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    John Turturro guest-hosting for Leonard Lopate on WNYC and inter­view­ing Spike Lee. Live. Now.
    (The week Christopher Walken guest-hosted for Leonard Lopate was pretty sweet.)

  • Petey says:
    August 10, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    Also, why no 2 Days in New York review?
    I’d think the stunt-casting of Lena Dunham as Julie Delpy alone would be worth a review…

  • Laneandrussell says:
    August 13, 2012 at 11:56 am

    It seems like every­one is giv­ing Bourne Legacy a luke­warm review. Not that good but not that bad. I won­der if it’s because people will always com­pare it to the ori­gin­al film. I won­der if it’d get a great review if it is the ori­gin­al film.

  • lorraine says:
    September 13, 2012 at 6:21 am

    thank you for the links, i am sure it is going to be interesting
    going to read more about it now