R. S. Martin

The French actress Marion Cotillard has perhaps the most expressive face in the history of movies. The broad cheekbones and low, heavy jawli...

Skyfall , the third of the James Bond films starring Daniel Craig, has a strong claim to being the best in the franchise's history. The ...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . The Impossible , directed by J. A. Bayona from a script credited to Sergio G. Sánch...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Killer Joe has some impressive behind-the-scenes credentials: an Oscar-winning di...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . The English director Joe Wright has often treated dramatizing his material as a se...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Writer-director Quentin Tarantino has become easier to pigeonhole as time has gone b...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Les Misérables , the screen adaptation of the musical based on Victor Hugo’s classic...

This review was originally published at Pol Culture . Beasts of the Southern Wild , the début feature of director Benh Zeitlin, is an exu...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Director Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2001 novel Life of Pi cements his p...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . The virtue of the science-fiction thriller Looper , written and directed by Rian Joh...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Lincoln , director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner’s treatment of the...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . The story in Magic Mike , directed by Steven Soderbergh from a script credited to R...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Writer-director Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage is a crisp, tightly wound suspense mel...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Flight , starring Denzel Washington, is an elaborately produced though ultimately p...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Zero Dark Thirty , director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal’s riveting po...

This review was first published on Pol Culture . The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a sparkling cross-cultural ensemble comedy. Seven Bri...

This review was first published on Pol Culture . Writer-director Craig Zobel’s Compliance is an intellectually smug piece of softcore tor...

This review was originally published on the Pol Culture website. The Sessions , written and directed by Ben Lewin, is the rare uplifting ...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Director Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly is a considerable step up from his p...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Argo , Ben Affleck’s third feature as a director, is an entertaining historical thri...