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.
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.
Correction corner: in the Bourne review it says Robert Ludlow instead of Ludlum.
when is someone going to put Jeremy Renner in a film with Jeremie Renier?
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 Premiere. 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 Premiere?)
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.)
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…
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.
thank you for the links, i am sure it is going to be interesting
going to read more about it now