Bernard Boo's Movie Reviews
All movie reviews written by Bernard Boo
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Human Capital
A well-constructed, well-groomed class drama with lots of big ideas that doesn't end up saying much.
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A Most Violent Year
Chandor's period crime drama is his least cohesive film, but is gripping and tense nonetheless.
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American Sniper
Eastwood and Cooper pay respects to late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle with a cerebral, intimate soldier's tale.
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Still Alice
Moore gives her all as an Alzheimer's sufferer in a dumpy, schematic disease movie.
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Spare Parts
A perpetually underwhelming underdog sports movie that doesn't do the true story justice.
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Selma
In DuVernay's grounded character portrait, MLK ain't no saint.
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Monk With a Camera
A pleasant, but unchallenging documentary about a man who left a life of privilege for a life of simplicity and virtue.
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Unbroken
Jolie's POW drama is too polite to its subject, preferring to emphasize nobility over the truth of misery and torture.
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Big Eyes
Burton's most tastefully designed film in years ultimately falls flat because Adams and Waltz can't get on the same page.
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Mr. Turner
It's hard to imagine Leigh, Spall, and their team improving upon what they put forth in this transcendental masterpiece.