Tag Archives: Liev Schrieber

540 – Salt (***)

Posted on July 23, 2010 by root

Salt, a spy movie about a CIA agent who may or may not actually be a Soviet agent, is a heck of a lot better than others in its genre. It has a lot of pulse-quickening action, astounding stunt work, … Continue reading →

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520 – Repo Men (*1/2)

Posted on March 20, 2010 by root

Although it looks like a sci-fi man-on-the-run thriller, Repo Men is substandard action that takes itself far too seriously and, in fact, isn’t really sure what it wants to be when it grows up. Jude Law stars as an employee … Continue reading →

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492 – X-Men Origins: Wolverine (**)

Posted on December 2, 2009 by root

Despite the great efforts of Hugh Jackman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is dead on arrival, combining an illogical plot with a raft of cliches that would embarrass the worst porn writer ever. There are too many characters to keep track of, … Continue reading →

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323 – The Painted Veil (**1/2)

Posted on June 22, 2007 by root

In this period piece, Edward Norton once again plays the smartest guy in the room, as Walter Fane, a dedicated, cold-hearted clinical researcher who travels to the middle of a cholera epidemic in China in the 1920s, with his young … Continue reading →

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194 – The Manchurian Candidate

Posted on March 14, 2005 by root

Wow, excellent movie. Jonathan Demme basically updated the 1962 political thriller so that the soldiers were in the Gulf War (the first one), and added a few other twists, too. Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) is the former captain of a … Continue reading →

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