The Salesman

Gripping drama from the director of A Separation

"...he’s been nominated again for his latest film, The Salesman. He won’t be attending this year’s ceremony, following Donald..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin Playhouse's Death of a Salesman

Marc Pouhé creates a powerful and sympathetic portrait of Willy Loman in a production starring African-American actors

"...Wilder's Our Town and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman...."

March 3, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Luv Doc Recommends: Knife Party! With the Jungle Rockers, Salesman, Flatcar Rattlers

Hole in the Wall, Saturday, July 31, 2010

"...music by Flatcar Rattlers; lyrical, acoustic indie rock by Salesman; and the wallet chain surf twang of the Jungle..."

July 30, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Partisan Supporters of Reform Don't Need a Salesman Like King

"...Leaving aside partisanship, supporters of reform don't need a salesman like this. First, is King aware of the Hippocratic..."

Aug. 3, 2009 Postmarks

Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year

New Bollywood comedy is the story of a young graduate entering the working world.

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Hologram for the King

Tom Hanks stars in this seriocomic take on Dave Eggers’ 2012 novel

"...sets before strapping into a roller coaster. The divorced salesman, who was once a great success, can no longer..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

First-time director Niels Mueller tells "the mad story of a true man" in this tragic portrait of Sam Bicke, who tried to fly an airplane into the White House in 1974.

"...but the tagline gets it about right: An out-of-work salesman named Sam Bicke did in fact exist, and the..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet's story of salesmen caught in their unique form of hell also offers a cornucopia of fine performances.

"...amazing in the role of Ricky Roma, top dog salesman. He combines uncharacteristic control with just the right amount..."

Oct. 9, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

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.

"...a peculiarly American angst; it’s like Death of a Salesman if Willy Loman had been a contract killer, minus..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

R100

Drafthouse Films is distributing this Japanese S&M mindwarp. You could do far worse for midnight-date movie fare.

"...Ohmori (Ichi the Killer himself) plays seemingly meek department-store salesman and family man Takafumi Katayama, who enrolls in a..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bad Times at the El Royale

Neo-noir hijinks gets away with being style over substance

"...Tonight it will call itself home to a vacuum salesman (Hamm), a road-tripping priest (Bridges), an aspiring singer (Erivo),..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Founder

Michael Keaton supersizes McDonald's

"...in 1954, when Kroc (Keaton) was still a door-to-door salesman hawking industrial shake mixers at mom-and-pop restaurants. At night,..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley find love and companionship in the face of the apocalypse.

"...for a character facing the apocalypse), a button-down insurance salesman whose wife (played by Carell’s real-life wife, Nancy) leaves..."

June 22, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thin Ice

Greg Kinnear plays a larcenous insurance agent who steps into a caper that spirals out of control.

"...with Greg Kinnear as Mickey Prohaska, a hustling insurance salesman who’s always looking to land a big score and..."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everything Must Go

Will Ferrell stars in this offbeat drama that's based on a Raymond Carver short story.

"...sort of demi-paunch that will likely overwhelm him someday, salesman Nick Halsey (Ferrell) has just been fired for alcoholic..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cedar Rapids

A wonderful cast turns Cedar Rapids into a semisweet charmer that fluxes between edgy comedy and palpable pathos.

"...fixture Helms is the painfully childlike, exasperatingly earnest life-insurance salesman Tim Lippe. He's so childlike, in fact, that he's..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

First Snow

A moody thriller that tries to thumb its nose at fatalism, First Snow features another great performance from Guy Pearce.

"...apart from another outstanding performance by Pearce, whose slick salesman Jimmy has the nerve to challenge his fate. While..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Man

Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy have starred in bigger stinkers, but this wheezing comedy may herald the death knell of the interracial buddy-cop farce.

"...in hot water. Levy is a nebbish (a dental-equipment salesman from Wisconsin) and Jackson is a bad motherfucker (an..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

A standout, a gross-out comedy that makes its audience go "awwww" as much as it goes "ewwww."

"...clocks in at under a minute, in which stereo-equipment salesman Andy Stitzer (Carell) wakes up with morning wood. It’s..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Performance artist Miranda July's feature-length debut is packed with arresting images, moments, and single lines of dialogue – enough to earn the film top awards at Sundance and Cannes.

"...Richard (Hawkes), a newly divorced single dad and shoe salesman. Richard is raising his boys, 13-year-old Peter (Thompson) and..."

July 15, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Johnson Family Vacation

Half-baked comedy is on the road to nowhere.

"...series opener is. Cedric plays Nate Johnson, an insurance salesman who’s taking his family – his estranged wife, three..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

About Schmidt

"...his daughter Jeannie (Davis) from marrying the mullet-headed waterbed salesman Randall (Mulroney), who Warren believes to be unworthy of..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What Time is it There?

"...leads (all Tsai regulars): Hsiao Kang, a sidewalk watch salesman; his mother (Lu Yi-Ching), desperate for any sign of..."

April 26, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Woman Chaser

"...(Seinfeld's ungainly Puddy) in the role of firecracker car salesman Richard Hudson. And it really doesn't help matters to..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Alarmist

"...fitting for the role of Thomas Hudler, a neophyte salesman wandering Candide-like in the world of home-security systems in..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Western

"...Russian émigré Nino (Bourdo) and the Spanish traveling shoe salesman Paco. While on route to a delivery, Paco stops..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

House Arrest

"...gets to stretch somewhat as an actor, playing a salesman for a big-and-tall men's clothing store (!) who's known..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Spanking the Monkey

"...all summer while his dad, who is a traveling salesman of instructional videotapes, is away from home (same as..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

King of the Hill

A young boy who's separated from his family spends time in a dilapidated hotel in this Depression-era drama. Soderbergh's film is a lyrical piece of well-crafted passion that doesn't shirk the bleak realities of the time

"...town. When a series of setbacks first send his salesman father (Krabbe) on the road, then his consumptive mother..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Master Builder

The impeccable craft and enduring genius of Arthur Miller, as explained by Tony Kushner

"...found in All My Sons and Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Kushner was invited to speak at..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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