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Review: The Man Who Wasn’t There

By Rick, on April 22nd, 2008 |

There’s a scene early-on in Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Man Who Wasn’t There where Doris Crane (Frances McDormand) is in the bathtub, getting ready for a night out. Her husband Ed (Billy Bob Thornton) stands in the doorway, watching, and she calls him over to shave her legs. He bends over the [...]

Some of My Favorites of ‘07

By Rick, on January 3rd, 2008 |

Unlike a real critic, I don’t have to go to movies I don’t think I’m going to like. I don’t have an editor assigning me films to review, nor do I feel the need to see everything, so I can warn the public–the members of which don’t listen to critics anyway–not to waste its [...]

Further Ruminations on No Country for Old Men

By Rick, on December 29th, 2007 |

Randomness—and it’s handmaiden nothingness—looms large in Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest film No Country for Old Men. From the opening shots of empty space to the abrupt cut to black at its end, No Country for Old Men relentlessly portrays its consequences and effects. This is most explicit in bizarre games of chance between [...]