“The Operative” is in the spirit of the smart, slow-burning, cat-and-mouse thrillers by John Le Carré and Graham Greene, but those authors’ books do a much better job of balancing sociopolitical analysis with genuine suspense. If you come in expecting a masterpiece, you will surely be disappointed. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. called Them That Follow. [2] It was released on August 2, 2019, by RLJE Films. This seems unusual, and it is — think too hard about it and you’ll be able to figure out the movie’s most substantial reveal. Even though Frank tells his son he’s out of the game, revenge is certainly on his mind. He hangs out to the south of the merchants. I expect more than one remake of a ‘50s Jean Gabin film. Frank gets his first iPhone, then Frank has his first girlfriend-experience-style hookup with a sad-eyed sex worker named Simone (Karolina Wydra). How to vote. A Score to Settle is a 2019 American action thriller film directed by Shawn Ku. Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. A typical Tarantino film is pretty good, mind. “Acceptance is the key” is a primary adage in many twelve step programs, and it can prove pretty useful in film assessment also. Sometimes it’s funny, other times it’s painful. Well, there is a new Nicolas Cage movie, which will be tantalizing news to those who saw the master in last year's wonderfully psychonautic Mandy—although maybe not so much to those who also caught its followup, the insufficiently deranged Between Worlds. [8], Sean Boelman of Popaxiom gave the film a mixed rating of 2.6/5, writing that: "A Score to Settle is a ton of fun for what it is. Review: Justin Simien is back with ‘Bad Hair,’ a horror comedy that cuts. First, its sympathetic depiction of these hardscrabble characters—people who have little else in life but their faith, and who in accord with a biblical injunction regularly test it by draping rattlesnakes about their bodies—is free of the smug mockery so often aimed at such people (for example by me, in the paragraph above). It stars Nicolas Cage and Benjamin Bratt. First, he wants to make up for the mistakes he made with his family. Kruger and Freeman give fine performances — as does Cas Anvar as Rachel’s Iranian target, who guides her to a different perspective on “the enemy.” But while the movie doesn’t lack for provocative ideas, it remains too conceptual throughout. Archived. The only thing diverting his violent plans is a new found relationship to his beloved son. The picture opens with Cage getting a prescription to help with his insomnia; he’s loath to start using it because it’s a controlled substance. It’s time for another Nicolas Cage VOD feature! (Well, that's the impression we're supposed to get: This hotel looks like an abandoned McMansion lightly peopled with extras dressed as bellboys and chambermaids.) The scene in which he's released from the lockup is a model of creative indifference on the part of director Shawn Ku: Frank steps out of a prison door in the middle of the night and just starts walking down a nearby highway. A Los Angeles judge has dismissed the lawsuit of one of two men who alleged in the documentary “Leaving Neverland” that Michael Jackson abused them as boys. Considering the uninspiring title, the hilariously lazy poster design with that typical straight-laced Nicolas Cage expression, this is probably, most likely, going to be awful. I guess I’d better make some time to go see it. Score is Cage at his least interesting, draggingly earnest and not even a little bit nuts. Though director Fred Grivois drops in some dramatic ‘70s-style split screens in the early going, “15 Minutes of War” is mostly square in its style — until a climactic shootout that makes some effective use of gun sight POV. Endorsement: The Times endorses Hoffman, Anderson, Henderson and Han for LACCD. We reserve the right to delete any comment for any reason at any time. Report abuses. […] none other than Nicolas Cage. But these flourishes don’t make the clichés all that less familiar-feeling. Thank you for reading! It has nothing original to say; we don’t see anything that we haven’t seen before. © 2020 Reason Foundation | Privacy Policy | Accessibility | Terms Of Use, Trump and Biden Are Right: Both Parties Are To Blame for America's Inhumane, Broken Immigration System, Joe Biden's Proposal To Double the Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour Won't Help Small Businesses, Joe Biden Has No Realistic Plan To Reopen Schools, Biden's Proposed Bipartisan Commission on Court Reform Could be a Hopeful Sign for Opponents of Court-Packing, Wisconsin's Foxconn Boondoggle Looks Worse Than Ever, The Rudy Giuliani Scene In the New Borat Movie Isn't What You Think, The CDC's Latest Antibody Data Confirm Huge Interstate Differences in COVID-19 Fatality Rates, Massive Rent Declines in America's Most Expensive Cities Prove, Once Again, That Supply and Demand Is Real.

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