“I’m starting to think this is the most spiritual place I’ve ever been,†maintains Selena Gomez’s vacant Faith about her spring break in the Sunshine State. Harmony Korine is clearly trying to channel Sissy Spacek’s Holly from Badlands, but fails. As does this voyeuristic film
“It still takes muscle, it still takes nerve,†James McAvoy’s auctioneer Simon maintains about stealing precious art before Vincent Cassel’s mob enter his auction house and nab a Goya, bomping Simon on the head. But the pair are in cahoots, see. Of course they are
Vegas showmen Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell, shiny teeth, stonking toupée) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi, wonky teeth, wondrous manner) have been pulling the same act for decades – only to split up when challenged by maverick street-magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey in manic mode).    Â
Danny Boyle’s hyper-devious thriller begins with James McAvoy’s hero-narrator Simon explaining, with a sly wink, how the security system operates in the auction house where he works. Â Â Â Â
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While his contemporaries languish in dismal comedies (De Niro) and lame thrillers (Pacino), Christopher Walken continues to challenge himself and improves with age.
Steven Soderbergh signs off his movie-directing career with considerable panache here, with a film that starts out as an expose of big pharma and mental health before morphing into an adroit and surprising Hitchcockian thriller. Rooney Mara is compelling as troubled Emily, who after collecting her husband (Channing Tatum) from prison for insider trading crashes her car into a wall. Emily …
This Docklands-set crime thriller was a huge struggle. It took four attempts to get through it
“God, don’t kill them, let me do it,†intones John P Ryan’s sadistic prison warden in this wildly over-the-top and brilliantly constructed thriller from 1985. Jon Voight is frankly demented as lifer Oscar Manheim who escapes a maximum-security prison with Eric Roberts’s dim Buck.    Â
“Has it never crossed your mind, a woman of your age in a sensitive industry?†a spook berates Helen McCrory’s aviation engineer, Frankie, who has fallen for a French-Algerian student (Najib Oudghiri), 20 years her junior.    Â