FILM REVIEWS

A winning underdog in The Million Dollar Arm

A winning underdog in The Million Dollar Arm

Joyce Glasser reviews Million Dollar Arm (August 29, 2014) Cert PG, 121 min. Producers and writers are so adept at creating fictional stories and plots that conform to the expectations of mass global ...
A Department Q adaptation

A Department Q adaptation

The decision to turn the first of 64-year-old Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q novels into a feature film suggests that the market for Scandinavian crime drama is far from sated.  Adapte ...
A fast paced thriller with Lucy

A fast paced thriller with Lucy

Joyce Glasser reviews Lucy (August 22, 2014) Cert. 15, 89 min. After Luc Besson’s breakthrough films in the 1980s, Subway and the Big Blue; and his best films of the 1990s, La Femme Nikita (1990); Leo ...