HORRIBLE BOSSES 2—Alison Hallett—who, despite all odds, rather enjoyed the first Horrible Bosses—found the sequel to be just as shitty and unfunny as it looks:
To make matters worse, the whole thing is wrapped up in a smirky cynicism about the state of the American economy. ("We're all fucked, right?" Horrible Bosses 2 says. "Now hand over $12 to see a sequel you didn't ask for.")
GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 3D—Hey, you know what else no one asked for? A Godard movie in 3D. Megan Burbank took the bullet so you don't have to:
Jean-Luc Godard is trolling us! That's the only way I can explain the hot mess that is Goodbye to Language. Here are some alternate titles I came up with while I sat through Godard's latest: Goodbye to Coherence, Goodbye to Everything Else I Could Have Done This Morning, Goodbye to Sanity.
A LITTLE NOIR—Ned Lannamann took a look at the NW Film Center's solid, weekend-long noir series:
The weekend opens with Orson Welles' The Stranger (screening Fri Nov 28). He considered it his worst movie, but it's still pretty great, with Welles as a Nazi posing as a teacher at a Connecticut prep school, and Edward G. Robinson hot on his tail. The clock-tower imagery is great, as is the dizzying espionage sequence that opens the movie, all shadows and half-faces.
We've got a bunch more reviews—including ones for the Indonesian polygamy film Bitter Honey, the fair wages doc Food Chains, the pelican-in-peril movie Pelican Dreams, and yet another crappy horror movie, V/H/S: Viral—in Film Shorts, and here are your Movie Times. Choose wisely.
