Just before the glut of summer moviedom comes a movie for grown-ups. Neither franchise entry nor reboot nor app-turned-feature, Money Monster is an old-fashioned Hollywood thriller starring a pair of vets—Julia Roberts and George Clooney—directed by another, Jodie Foster. Clooney is Lee Gates, a roguish asshole who hosts a gimmicky show called Money Monster, in which he fast talks and […]
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Carnage a wreck
Roman Polanski has adapted plays for the screen before, including the single-location Death And The Maiden, so maybe one could understand the appeal of Yasmina Reza’s static examination of two New York couples meeting to discuss their children’s schoolyard fight. And the actors—Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet and Chrisoph Waltz—get a wordy piece […]