Haywire

A technically exemplary but otherwise unremarkable piece of fisticuffs filmmaking.

"...Haywire is a technically exemplary but otherwise unremarkable piece of..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shot Caller

The metamorphosis of the prison system

"...curdled and rancid look at the American dream gone haywire...."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Addicted to Fresno

Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer co-star as sisters in off-color comedy

"...shows up in one of their hotel suites, the haywire result of one of Shannon’s liaisons. The rest of..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Goodnight Mommy

Nine-year-old twins suspect that someone is impersonating their mother

"...twin sons – and vice versa – gone weirdly haywire, Goodnight Mommy is required viewing for both lovers of..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cop Car

Two boys go on the lam in Kevin Bacon's cop car

"...of it as a freeze frame from Boyhood gone haywire. And then think twice about having kids. They can..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gone Girl

When a lady vanishes, David Fincher holds the moral compass.

"...unspools like an awful case of lucid dreaming gone haywire...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The November Man

Pierce Brosnan stars in this spy thriller that's decently made, but lacks the sizzle of a 007 or Jason Bourne.

"...mission as an assistant to Federov. When things go haywire, the die is cast for the remainder of this..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Closed Circuit

Paranoia strikes deep in this Brit courtroom suspenser.

"...foray into the shadowy landscape of high-echelon statecraft gone haywire. Throughout Closed Circuit, it repeatedly struck me that the..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Synecdoche, New York

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, and amazing; it’s also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing: in a word, a masterpiece.

"...elongated in the movie; continuity becomes confused; chronology goes haywire, caught between stasis and anti-stasis. All the while, Cotard..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wicker Man

Notorious director Neil LaBute's well-intentioned but inadvertently silly film starring Nicolas Cage replaces the vague, sinister paganism of the original with a creepy infusion of earth-mother estrogen gone haywire.

"...original with a creepy infusion of earth-mother estrogen gone haywire. Anyone who thinks the world might be a nicer..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Welcome Back, Mr. Mcdonald

"...stage for farce when a live radio drama goes haywire and begins a whole chain of events...."

April 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Avengers

"...oddball Father. When the weather over the Isles goes haywire thanks to Connery's bombastic and thoroughly deranged meteorologist character,..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

We Need to Do Something

The terror is coming from inside and outside the house

"...a similar tone of antsy paranoia and psychoses gone haywire is Bruce McDonald’s woefully underappreciated 2008 masterpiece Pontypool, another..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I’ve Got Issues

Mournful, doleful, hopeful Austin comedy finds empathy in the edges

"...around the daily grind of contemporary life gone incrementally haywire. The actors turn up in multiple parts, among them..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Annihilation

Alex Garland's SF mystery is weird for weirdness' sake.

"...with its weirdnesses – navigation and communication instruments gone haywire, a disorientation that causes the unit to lose memory..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Flatliners

This reboot is dead on arrival

"...cheap-shot scare tactics: eerie whispers, bloated ghosts, technology gone haywire, etc. This movie is what might happen if Grey’s..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Logan Lucky

A different kind of heist film from the Ocean's 11 director

"...anxious-sneeze confirmed in Contagion; mixed martial arts adrenaline shot Haywire; new-millennium Norma Rae Erin Brockovich; new-genre invention – hullo,..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Belko Experiment

A gory social experiment gone wrong

"...corporate ladder tend to see their moral compasses go haywire in this new age of Corporations = People. Written..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3am: Joe Ely's Reverb: An Odyssey

The road goes on forever, and there's never a destination

"...this sad town and see if everywhere was as haywire as this."..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

The Possession

A divorced couple reunite in their efforts to save their daughter from an evil spirit.

"...Messiah drops round and the plains of Megiddo go haywire yet again. Oy vey. A correction regarding the director's..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

We Need To Talk About Kevin

Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of a teen rampage killer who has a complicated relationship with her son.

"...picture of motherhood – and childhood – gone utterly haywire. Shunned by her neighbors, her home defaced by teenage..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Both ridiculous and ridiculously fun, this is over-the-top robotic mayhem.

"...Northrop Grumman of all iconic, hawkish institutions) perfectionist gone haywire. If Transformers was big, loud, and dumb, and Transformers:..."

July 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Predators

This Robert Rodriguez-produced film doesn't try to be a sequel to the Schwarzenegger picture but, instead, is a new story about humans hunted by the merciless Predators.

"...the final shot is a doozy, rivaling Rodriguez's more haywire (and therefore more entertaining) From Dusk Till Dawn. Genre..."

July 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hot Tub Time Machine

Consider this comedy yet another nail in the Eighties coffin.

"...once was, until, obviously, that titular hot tub goes haywire, resulting in the sort of hit-or-miss gags that are..."

April 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Armored

An armored truck robbery of $42 million is an inside job in this action film starring Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, and Jean Reno.

"...no contest. Predictably, the perfectly planned caper goes completely haywire, and new guy Ty finds himself locked in the..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters @ 3AM

The current economic crisis is real, probably systemic, and maybe dire

"...Two days before the markets went really haywire, "the [European Central Bank] ... declared that recent financial..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Munich

Munich is dense, thoughtful filmmaking that nonetheless flies along: Seething not only with multilayered, subtextual arguments, it’s also a heck of a thriller.

"...the group’s misbegotten conscience when things begin to go haywire. Avner, unable to refuse a request from the prime..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A History of Violence

Cronenberg's new horror film implicitly tackles the old question of nature vs. nurture: What are we born with and what do we acquire from our environment?

"...awry and sometimes the result of bodily functions gone haywire, but the malfunction is always abetted by human hubris,..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bigger Than Life

"...of Atilla's. As a consequence, all begins to go haywire and Old Testament-like in suburbia. Of course, this is..."

June 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...serious gangster; when his latest delivery of money goes haywire, he calls his girlfriend Lola. With 20 minutes to..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

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