Movie Reviews6.9/10
Cold Mountain Review: Jude Law’s Wounded Soldier Deserves the Patience It Demands
A wounded soldier walks home through war and ruin, pursued by fate, while his wife waits upon a lonely farm.
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TV Reviews6.3/10
‘Black Rabbit’: Jude Law’s Wildcard Performance Can’t Save This Crime Thriller’s Weak Payoff
A tale of two brothers, one rising star and one ruinous return, in a slow-burn drama that never quite ignites.
Movie Reviews2.2/10
Sixteen Years On, Repo Men Still Trades a Sharp Premise for a Shallow One
A repo man gets an artiforg himself and learns the terror of being the customer. A hollow tale of debt, organs, and a world gone wrong.
Movie Reviews6.8/10
eXistenZ Review: Cronenberg’s Game Designer Experiment Stumbles Midway
A game designer enters her own creation, a realm where reality and fiction blur, pursued by assassins and Realists alike.
Movie Reviews6.3/10
‘Anna Karenina’: Wright’s Stage Spectacle Works When Knightley Anchors It
A review of Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, a stylized tale of doomed romance that dazzles but sometimes sacrifices depth for spectacle.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
Doctor Parnassus Cheats the Devil — and the Audience
A review of Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a flawed film of ambition marred by Heath Ledger's untimely death.
Movie Reviews6.5/10
A Lie Between Two Couples Tears Closer Apart
A tale of four souls entwined in lies and desire, wherein a woman watches all others act whilst her own heart remains unseen.
TV Reviews7.2/10
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: A Warm, Familiar Amblin-Style Adventure
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, the Jude Law-led Disney+ series from Jon Watts, ran eight episodes and won four Children's & Family Emmys. Our review.
Movie Reviews5.3/10
Vassili Zaitsev Was a Real Sniper. The Film Turns His Duel Into a Chess Match.
Enemy at the Gates, Jean-Jacques Annaud's 2001 Stalingrad sniper film with Jude Law and Ed Harris, reviewed 25 years on: a great opening, a hollow duel.
Movie Reviews4.7/10
The Secrets of Dumbledore Buries Its Best Story in the Subplot
The third Fantastic Beasts film finally admits Dumbledore loves Grindelwald, but buries its best idea under blood troths, qilins and a messy retcon.
TV Reviews8/10
Paolo Sorrentino built a pope who hides his face and takes the Church’s money.
The Young Pope turned the Vatican into a stage for a man who hides his face and takes the Church's money. One season, 10 episodes, and an Emmy first.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
What Gattaca Got Right About Genetic Discrimination, 29 Years Later
Gattaca review: Ethan Hawke and Jude Law in Andrew Niccol's 1997 eugenics sci-fi — strong premise, tidy drama, borrowed ladder. 6.4/10.