Green Zone

"Green Zone": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

As created by director Paul Greengrass, screenwriter Brian Helgeland and star Matt Damon, this risk-taking endeavor takes the narrative skills and drive Greengrass honed to perfection on "The Bourne Ultimatum" and "The Bourne Supremacy" and marries them to reality-based political concerns. More specifically, this is a red-hot action thriller that deals quite candidly and unapologetically with the situation in Iraq. Read Turans's full review of "Green Zone" at the LA Times

Green Zone
In 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his team of inspectors are on a mission to find Iraq's reported stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Traveling from one dangerous site to the other, Miller and his team fail to find any chemical agents or other weapons. Instead, they discover an elaborate cover-up in which the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.

Opened March 12, 2010 | Runtime:1 hr. 55 min.
Cast: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla, Jason Isaacs
Director: Paul Greengrass
Genres: War Drama, Political Thriller, Thriller

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Cop Out

"Cop Out": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

There really is no good reason to recommend "Cop Out"; there are, however, about a dozen bad ones, starting with the fact that it's the first gross-out comedy to come along since "The Hangover" that is actually a comedy and not just gross, although make no mistake, gross it is -- this is a Kevin Smith film after all -- so don't say you weren't warned. But there is enough ridiculous fun in the Tracy Morgan-Bruce Willis pairing as two of Brooklyn's "finest" to get many of you past the squirm-inducing stuff. After some rough sledding, Smith seems like he's come home in "Cop Out," with his loose, easy style helping to take the edge off the R rating. It's in the execution of high-concepts that Smith sometimes gets lost, but that doesn't happen here. There isn't a high concept in sight. Read reviewer's full review of "Cop Out" at the LA Times

Cop Out
Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, and Paul is his "partner-against-crime" whose preoccupation with his wife's alleged infidelity makes it hard for him to keep his eye on the ball.

Opened February 26, 2010 | Runtime:1 hr. 50 min.
Cast: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollak, Guillermo Diaz
Director: Kevin Smith
Genres: Detective Film, Buddy Film, Comedy, Police Comedy


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The Art of the Steal

"The Art of the Steal": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

An energetically entertaining if a bit one-sided documentary that shows how the Philadelphia establishment committed an act of cultural vandalism by engineering a move of the Barnes collection from its iconic home in suburban Merion, Penn., to a proposed new museum in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. It's a move that illustrates as few other things how art and culture have become commodified into big money industries. Read Turan's full review of "The Art of the Steal" at the LA Times

The Art of the Steal
Don Argott’s documentary investigation into the long tug-of-war over the multi-billion dollar Barnes collection of paintings suggests that what may be the biggest art heist of the century is happening right now, with public money and in plain sight. Industrialist and visionary art collector Albert C. Barnes created an educational institution—which he located in Merion, PA—based on his unparalleled collection of masterworks by the likes of Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne, and Matisse. When he died, the Barnes Foundation carried on as his will stipulated for fifty years—until a powerful group of moneyed interests plotted to relocate the art to a new museum in Philadelphia. With the Governor, the Mayor, and several of the country’s most powerful charitable organizations on the verge of moving the Barnes, a loyal group of former students has gone to court to stop them.

Opened February 26, 2010 | Runtime:1 hr. 41 min.
Director: Don Argott
Genres: Visual Arts
Opened February 26, 2010
Runtime:1 hr. 41 min.

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