Starring:
Isaach de Bankole, Alex Descas, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Luis
Tosa…
Review:
Even the great ones hit snags. With The Limits of
Control, Jim Jarmsuch gets tangled up in his own deadpan. I’d
explain a little of the plot, but there isn’t any. Just the stoic
visage of Isaach De Bankolé as a nameless hitman who wanders
through non-touristy Spain (shot with […]

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Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson
Review:
The main problem with this treatise on racial politics
undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil
LaBute, didn’t write the script. LaBute is an incendiary playwright
(Bash, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig) who puts us in the company
of misogynist men who slowly reveal their base instincts.
Lakeview Terrace, written […]

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Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson
Review:
The main problem with this treatise on racial politics
undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil
LaBute, didn’t write the script. LaBute is an incendiary playwright
(Bash, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig) who puts us in the company
of misogynist men who slowly reveal their base instincts.
Lakeview Terrace, written […]

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