Thursday, January 19, 2012

Talking Pictures: 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close' | 'Haywire' | 'Pina' | 'Red Tails' | 'The Flowers of War'

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'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close': Post-9/11 film milks viewer emotions with impunity -- 1 1/2 stars
'Extremely Loud & ... Close' — 1 1/2 stars
Post-9/11 film milks viewer emotions with impunity

The carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Manhattan protagonist as "The Worst Day," turns into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the cheapest kind.

'Haywire': Heroine Gina Carano can kick it, and hard — 3 stars 'Haywire' — 3 stars
Carano can kick it, and hard

In this eccentric thriller, the on-screen violence is sharp and exciting -- brutal without being either subhumanly sadistic or ridiculous.
'Pina': 3-D accompanies dance, beautifully -- 4 stars 'Pina' — 4 stars
3-D accompanies dance

Wim Wenders turns a 3-D camera on an exotic and unlikely subject: the dancers of northwestern Germany's Tanztheater Wuppertal.
Heroism loses to Hollywood in 'Red Tails' — 2 stars 'Red Tails' — 2 stars
Heroism loses to Hollywood

A great subject is squandered, reducing the real-life struggles and fierce heroics of the Tuskegee Airmen to rickety cliche.
'Flowers of War': Christian Bale stars in Zhang Yimou's film about Nanking Massacre -- 2 stars 'Flowers of War' — 2 stars
Bale stars in Nanking story

Zhang Yimou's 19th feature is a lavish period weepie set against the atrocities of the Nanking Massacre.
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