Movie Review: THE SHROUDS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/18/2025
THE SHROUDS movie poster | ©2025 Janus Films/Sideshow

Rating: R Stars: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Jennifer Dale, Elizabeth Saunders Writer: David Cronenberg Director: David Cronenberg Distributor: Sideshow/Janus Films Release Date: April 18, 2025 Director/writer David Cronenberg has made his share of mainstream prestige cinema, including M. BUTTERFLY, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, and EASTERN PROMISES. However, when people use the adjective “Cronenbergian,” they are usually thinking of the filmmaker’s tales of eccentric scientists, bodily metamorphosis and conspiracy scenarios. A few of his more notable adventures in this vein include SCANNERS, VIDEODROME, and THE FLY. The latest addition to the latter category is THE SHROUDS. Vincent […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE THREE MUSKETEERS – PART II: MILADY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/03/2024
THE THREE MUSKETEERS: PART II: MILADY movie poster | ©2024 Samuel Goldwyn Films/Pathé

Rating: Not Rated Stars: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Vicky Krieps, Lyna Khoudri, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Eric Ruf, Marc Barbé, Patrick Mille, Julien Frison, Camille Rutherford Writers: Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas Director: Martin Bourboulon Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films/Pathé Release Date: April 19, 2024 Essentially picking up from the “to be continued” cliffhanger ending of 2023’s THE THREE MUSKETEERS – PART I: D’ARTAGNAN, THE THREE MUSKETEERS – PART II: MILADY starts with a title telling us the year is 1627. We get an onscreen written […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DAMAGED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/12/2024
DAMAGED movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Vincent Cassel, Gianni Capaldi, Laura Haddock, John Hannah, Kate Dickey, Brian McCardie Writers: Koji Steven Sakai, Gianni Capaldi, Paul Aniello, story by Paul Aniello & Gianni Capaldi Director: Terry McDonough Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: April 12, 2024 The notion of Samuel L. Jackson as a Chicago homicide detective in Edinburgh, Scotland is full of potential. DAMAGED doesn’t play with those possibilities in the way we might expect. Still, as a serial killer thriller, it’s decently intriguing until it becomes unglued in the third act. When a young woman is followed home from her synagogue […]Read On »


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Movie Review: JASON BOURNE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/29/2016
JASON BOURNE | © 2016 Universal

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed, Ato Essandoh, Scott Shepherd Writers: Paul Greengrass & Christopher Rouse, based on characters created by Robert Ludlum Director: Paul Greengrass Distributor: Universal Release Date: July 29, 2016 JASON BOURNE Director Paul Greengrass can do kinetic action with the best of them – he also helmed the last two Jason Bourne adventures, THE BOURNE SUPREMACY and THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, as well as the riveting UNITED 93. However, Greengrass and co-scripter Christopher Rouse (who also serves as JASON BOURNE’s film editor) have centered the new film […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A DANGEROUS METHOD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/23/2011
A DANGEROUS METHOD movie poster | ©2011 Sony Pictures Classics

Rating: R Stars: Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Gadon, Vincent Cassel Writer: Christopher Hampton, based on his play THE TALKING CURE, based on the book A MOST DANGEROUS METHOD by John Kerr Director: David Cronenberg Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Release Date: November 23, 2011 When the subject of witty, dry, cerebral movie comedies arises, David Cronenberg is not the first director who springs to mind. Nevertheless, he’s made a fine one with A DANGEROUS METHOD, about the making and unmaking of the real-life professional relationship and personal friendship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLACK SWAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/03/2010
BLACK SWAN movie poster | © 2010 Fox Searchlight

Dancing can be dangerous, and not just physically. The canon of ballet narratives is full of tales of people (mostly women) who dance themselves to death. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s seminal 1948 THE RED SHOES famously turned a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale into a fable set in the world of ballet. Now director Darren Aronofsky uses the classic SWAN LAKE as the backdrop and catalyst for the potential implosion of his heroine.


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