Bright Lights Film Journal

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal May 8, 2011 9/10 Of Time and Place: An Interview with John Raymond on Meek's Cutoff Go to Full Review Meek's Cutoff (2010) 86% 53%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Dec 7, 2010 8.5/10 The truly child-bound perspectives of The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth are still to come, though Aurora has flights of del Torian wonder. Go to Full Review Cronos (1993) 88% 69%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Nov 28, 2010 9/10 "Loving the Bad: An Interview with Frankie Latina and Sasha Grey on Modus Operandi" Go to Full Review Modus Operandi (2009) 57% 55%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Nov 24, 2010 9/10 Rose cleverly uses its contemporary fictional narrative to depict documentary filmmaking's process of revealing truth. Go to Full Review Kawasaki's Rose (2009) 87% 60%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Nov 16, 2010 6.5/10 [A] minor, worthy entry [...] Cassavetes, like Gene Hackman, had access to a reserve of energy. Go to Full Review Machine Gun McCain (1969) 80% 37%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Nov 6, 2010 7/10 [Perry] pulls off disturbing moments by finding conviction and vulnerability in his performers. Go to Full Review For Colored Girls (2010) 31% 73%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Oct 2, 2010 8.5/10 [Network's rise and fall] relates to the classic gangster film narrative ... More directly, [the film] positions itself as a new Citizen Kane, with its protagonist reaching the heights of a communication empire. Go to Full Review The Social Network (2010) 96% 87%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Sep 24, 2010 7/10 The final narrative movement ... lets the early part of the film rest as the weaker premise that it is. Go to Full Review Catfish (2010) 80% 71%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Sep 17, 2010 8/10 The Coens' Loren Visser (M. Emmet Walsh) is cold blooded, but to see the new hitman's method of silent murder will unveil the real noirish heart of darkness. Go to Full Review A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009) 34% 39%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Aug 13, 2010 6/10 Rodney [Dangerfield] may have cracked about "praying after you eat," but this film reflects the need to surfeit before finding balance. Go to Full Review Eat Pray Love (2010) 35% 42%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Jul 15, 2010 2/10 (S)tories should show, not tell, and Nolan keeps telling us that he can't tell this story. Go to Full Review Inception (2010) 86% 94%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Jul 2, 2010 6/10 Fantasy works best off linear narrative clarity, while many scene transitions whirl like air in the hands of Aang. Yet, Night ignites the separate moments with visual magic worthy of his mythology. Go to Full Review The Last Airbender (2010) 5% 30%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Jun 22, 2010 9/10 (O)nce it plants itself within, it remains a vivid cultural memory. Go to Full Review Mystery Train (1989) 89% 87%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Jun 17, 2010 2/10 The filmmakers try to squeeze action from their trampling of a genre. Go to Full Review Jonah Hex (2010) 11% 16%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Jun 12, 2010 10/10 The new release of Metropolis, fully restored to just shy of Fritz Lang's original vision, is an example of the grandest telepathy: what was thought to be lost forever. Go to Full Review Metropolis (1927) 97% 92%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Jun 2, 2010 8/10 [S]omething very different and, as usual for the filmmaker, very fresh. Go to Full Review Bluebeard (2009) 78% 47%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal May 20, 2010 7/10 A tribute that also serves as an introduction ... For those of us already in the know, the film plays like a passionate return to a great conversation. Go to Full Review Two in the Wave (2009) 64% 51%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal May 11, 2010 7/10 Babies is one of the most human fly-on-the-wall docs I've ever come across. Go to Full Review Babies (2010) 67% 62%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Apr 19, 2010 9/10 Here comes a rich smell drawn from a load of bullsh-t. Go to Full Review Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) 96% 91%

Matthew Sorrento Bright Lights Film Journal Mar 30, 2010 3/5 Cusack seem(s) like a casting error [in this hilarious comedy], a cameo miscast into a lead. Go to Full Review Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) 64% 56%