Thank you, Film Streams, for giving Omaha even a brief showing of this fascinating 1970 French classic directed by Francois Truffaut. It’s a true story, set in 1798, about a boy who is found living in the woods and the kind doctor (played by Truffaut) who saves him from being exhibited as a freak and tries to educate him.
Grade: A
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With Frost/Nixon, director Ron Howard not only delivers a potent little political thriller, he creates an amazingly accurate portrait of America’s darkest and most unknowable president. Like Josh Brolin did in W., Frank Langella doesn’t imitate Nixon, he inhabits him, showing us the raging demons that fueled his rise and his destruction.
Grade: A
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Mall Cop may deserve a citizen’s arrest for posing as a comedy without delivering a single belly laugh. But since it’s a good-hearted movie, free of vulgarity and violence, I’ll let it off with a warning.
Grade: C+
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A serious film that compares German guilt about the Holocaust with a sick “romance” between a 15-year-old boy and a grown woman, The Reader raises intriguing and powerful issues. It’s a shame that in some basic areas (the boy is unconvincing, certain trial scenes are implausible) this is just a poorly made movie.
Grade: C+
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We get terrific performances by Viola Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep in a thought-provoking story of a strong-willed nun and priest in a Catholic school in 1964. It’s based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, and my only objection is that it still feels like a play; it doesn’t take advantage of the possibilities of the movie medium.
Grade: B
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This biopic about Harvey Milk, the pioneering gay politician in San Francisco who was assassinated in 1978, mixes the public and personal to make a story that’s full and compelling, even though we know how it comes out. Memo to the makers of Valkyrie: It can be done.
Grade: A
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Watching Slumdog Millionaire is not so much a moviegoing experience as it is an act of sheer endurance. If you can make it through the scene where the hero leaps into a vat of human excrement, or the part where he’s tortured with a car battery, or the segment in which a little orphan boy’s eyes are gouged out with acid (I’m not kidding), then congratulations, they say you’ve been entertained.
Grade: D
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