Levitation Review: Slowdive, Survive, Mien
Shoegaze, synth wave, and a supergroup debut
"...The evening opened with the debut performance from Mien, formed by Black Angels singer Alex Maas, Elephant Stone..."
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April 29, 2018 Music Post by Michael Toland
Killer Joe
Matthew McConaughey's Killer Joe is sociopathy incarnate; William Friedkin adds visual punch to the venality within Tracy Letts' screenplay.
"...figures on Killer Joe's icy tenacity and queasily imperturbable mien. Absolute doom ensues...."
Aug. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
This Chinese film presents an uncharacteristically romantic look at the Cultural Revolution.
"...to the screen, Dai Sijie retains its breezy, amiable mien, complemented here by pretty Szechuan peasant scenery from Jean-Marie..."
Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
A guilty pleasure for thirtysomething stoners with ironic dispositions and large nacho platters.
"...something about Shaggy’s brown crushed-velvet tuxedo and Lillard’s goofball mien ("Like, they’re totally having a montage in there without..."
March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Bartleby
"...Glover was born to play; his nebbishy, vaguely creepy mien gives Bartleby's inertia a sinister edge without making him..."
June 14, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Angel Eyes
"...to get a kick out of her character's tough-girl mien. And the movie really does have the nicest of..."
May 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Levitation 2018
"...Mien at Stubb’s..."
April 30, 2018 Photo Gallery
Wicked Little Letters
Poison pen letters tear a seaside community apart in post-WWI England
"...zingy cast that came to play. The film’s upbeat mien and amusingly broad characterizations belie the seriousness of a..."
April 5, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
A Good Person
Unsubtle tale of addiction and redemption raised up by great performances
"...meets Daniel (Freeman, neatly lacing acid into his avuncular mien), the father to one of the highway fatalities...."
March 24, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
We Broke Up
Awkward anti-rom-com can't work out what kind of funny to be
"...Cash – she of the perfect brows and a mien that’s like your five favorite Peanuts characters crammed into..."
April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Mien
"...Black Angels, the Horrors, the Earlies, and Elephant Stone, Mien pulls from the bands' kaleidoscopic gloom and doom with..."
April 27, 2018 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez
Mad Max: Fury Road
Glorious action cinema abounds on Fury Road
"...with Englishman Tom Hardy, who has a similar stony mien and wears the gearhead icon’s battered leather jacket with..."
May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Black Sea
This undersea actioner stars Jude Law as a submarine captain leading a team of Brits and Russians in the recovery of a sunken fortune.
"...up and by all appearances channeling Russell Crowe’s scowly mien and preternaturally furrowed brow) hears tell of a sunken..."
Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Skeleton Twins
Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig co-star as siblings in this dramatic workout.
"...foot shorter and more softly featured. She has the mien of a lost kitten; he looks like he’s about..."
Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Resident Evil: Retribution
In the fifth installment of this horror franchise, Milla Jovovich again stars as the saga's heroine Alice, who fights the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.
"...Jovovich's physicality and chilly mien (she was originally a "project" of the Umbrella Corp.)..."
Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Greenberg
Ben Stiller and (one-time Chronicle cover girl) Greta Gerwig star in this new film by the director of The Squid and the Whale.
"...by in fuzzy neons) and the actors' shaggy, slouchy mien; and, most especially, in its uncertain and untethered lead,..."
March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Wolfman
This monster reboot disappoints terribly, making up in blood and entrails what it lacks in heart and soul.
"...it was clearly intended to be. Despite his wolfish mien, Del Toro, as the soon-to-be wolfman, is miscast. He..."
Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson's delightful animated film has room for both existentialist dread and a grinning joie de vivre.
"...production designer Nelson Lowry, who perfectly translates Anderson’s tweedy mien to quadrupeds; composer Alexandre Desplat (a welcome replacement for..."
Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Brideshead Revisited
It's a film, not a miniseries, but this rendition's attention to the steep divides of class and religion in prewar England remains as sharply etched as ever.
"...calcifies with age and heartbreak, Goode loses his boyish mien and turns out to be a more compelling actor..."
Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Kingdom
Initially, The Kingdom seems like it might be another of this season's politically charged movies, but it actually plays more like an explosive episode of CSI: Riyadh.
"...very well-defined, and Cooper, with his weather-beaten face and mien, is the only member of the team who carries..."
Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
This Is England
Set in Thatcherite England, this semi-autobiographical story tells of a descent from mischievous schoolboy to junior skinhead.
"...Paul McCartney – but Meadows also plays his boyish mien for ironic impact: With the right training, even a..."
Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Condemned
Steve Austin stars in this WWE-produced movie about a death row convict who is brought to a remote island to fight nine other killers to the death for a televised bout.
"...into an MTV montage. Meanwhile, Austin’s soft-spoken but tough mien (“Get yourself together,” he tells a man with a..."
April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Nacho Libre
This sophomore outing from the director of Napoleon Dynamite is full of cheesy goodness, courtesy of Jack Black, but a little goes a long way.
"...daily dose of gruel with a stoic (if paunchy) mien, until fate intervenes not once but twice. It's the..."
June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Mountain Patrol: Kekexili
A self-appointed game warden and his ragtag band of volunteers cross some treacherous Chinese landscape in search of poachers who are decimating the Tibetan antelope.
"...camera loves Ri Tai’s flowing hair and studly, weathered mien, and he’s given to walking away dramatically after an..."
May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Mission: Impossible III
It's all poppycock, of course, but done with great vim, vigor, and flair.
"...of the IMF and Davian, who, flaunting a steely mien Ian Fleming would've greatly appreciated, does tremendously bad things..."
May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Matador
A curious, postmodern sort of buddy comedy, The Matador is like Death of a Salesman if Willy Loman had been a contract killer.
"...that beneath Kinnear’s boyish looks and eager-to-please, almost canine mien resides a highly skilled actor capable of some remarkable..."
Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Derailed
The first release from the new Weinstein Co. is this thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen that never fully engages our sympathies.
"...Owen, he of the graveside manner and the steely mien, has owned every film lucky enough to feature him..."
Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Upside of Anger
The two fantastic performances by Allen and Costner that anchor The Upside of Anger are the reason to see this contemporary drama about romance between two flawed adults.
"...is prickly: She’s an affluent homemaker with a patrician mien, who’s filled with too much indignation to chase after..."
April 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Off the Map
An off-the-grid family copes with depression and a tax audit outside Taos, N.M., in this warm and unusual drama directed by Campbell Scott.
"...as a priss due to her patrician features and mien of steel-magnolia feminine restraint, has a ball as the..."
April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Constantine
Adapted from Alan Moore’s groundbreaking DC/Vertigo comic title, Constantine is sure to divide the series’ most rabid fans, but those who can set aside their preconceptions will discover one of the more artfully designed comic-based films in some time.
"...Reeves himself. With his black trenchcoat and jaded, doom-centric mien, he pulls it off, capturing, however improbably, the sheer,..."
