The Art of Getting By

As coming-of-age dramas go, this one is flaccid and endlessly irksome.

"...to individuate George; Highmore, alas, brings little more than serial-killer eyes and his native British tongue flatlined into a..."

June 17, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

sxswf: Reel Crime, Real Victims

Phil Anselmo, Hart Fisher talk pain and punishment

"...his comic Jeffrey Dahmer: An Unauthorized Biography of a Serial Killer. Phil Anselmo became famous as the singer for..."

March 26, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Genre Regenerator

South Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon wants to try it all

"...exhumes tropes from the clichéd casket of the Hollywood serial killer genre and reanimates the form. It's this decade's..."

March 25, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest: 'Golden Slumber'

Nakamura's 'Slumber' is golden.

"...JFK conspiracy theories, Hitchcockian man-on-the-lam outings, the criminally overused serial killer subgenre, and late-period Beatles songs, Golden Slumber comes..."

Sept. 23, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Red Riding: 1980

This second installment in a three-part dramatization of dirty dealings in Yorkshire is concerned with the notorious corruption mill that powers the region’s law enforcement.

"...detailing the victim roll call of the UK’s notorious serial killer – but in truth, that’s a bit of..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

88 Minutes

Al Pacino stars in this dull and formulaic procedural.

"...the creation of this muddled, joyless, and deadly dull serial killer-meets-forensic psychiatrist snoozefest should be forced to spend –..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zodiac: Director's Cut

Spencer Parsons has been waiting for a proper DVD of Fincher's essay on the dorkiness of evil since end titles rolled in the theatre

"...Brad Pitt hits the library in search of a serial killer's literary influences, where he turns up Dante, Milton,..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Hills Snyder: All Good Children

In the Gallery 68 show, the artist posed as a serial killer being executed for his crimes

"...the Flatbed Press building. It presents Snyder as a serial killer wanted for the murders of 16 victims –..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

The Tripper

David Arquette directs this horror film in which a Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies.

"...co-wrote and directs this horror film in which a serial killer who wears a Ronald Reagan mask targets a..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scoop

Woody Allen's second British film with Scarlett Johansson finds the director falling back into the rut he carved for himself with every forgettable comedy since the underrated Deconstructing Harry.

"...small talk with the victim of a notorious London serial killer and discovers that the murderer is likely famous..."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

When a Stranger Calls

Simon West’s do-over of Fred Walton’s 1979 creepfest – in which babysitter Belle menaced by a stranger with a phone who probably isn’t that guy from Verizon – is a hollow, shallow, and just plain boring exercise in snooziness.

"...Rejects or John McNaughton’s wicked Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Sadly (and worse, predictably) the deep red frissons..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Juarez: Stages of Fear

This film is a passionate if clunky cri du coeur for the kidnapped and murdered women of Juarez, Mexico – a silent epidemic of as many as 450 crimes in the last 10 years.

"...portion of the murders are being committed by a serial killer, possibly an American citizen (a modus operandi Alejandro..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Cry Wolf

A tech-centric but bloodless teen horror thriller that works best as a stinging critique of post-adolescent whininess.

"...to include the whole campus by foisting off a serial-killer scare on the entire student/teacher population, they’re game and..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crónicas

John Leguizamo plays a TV reporter in Ecuador in a film that examines the ethics of tabloid journalism.

"...children killed by the notorious "Monster of Babahoyo," a serial killer who has already raped and tortured some 150..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chrystal

Billy Bob Thornton plays an Arkansas husband who attempts to redeem himself after critically injuring his wife and killing their son in a car accident four years earlier.

"...name, but you probably know his face: as a serial killer from a later episode of The X-Files, as..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Seed of Chucky

Over-the-top gore is the rule when Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their anatomically incorrect offspring.

"...(voiced by Brad Dourif), you will recall, is a serial killer trapped in the body of a plastic Good..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two

We celebrate the opening of Jonathan Demme's complex and moving The Agronomist and cherish the sensibilities of horror-film art director Robert Burns, who passed away this week

"...and directed Mongrel, and starred in Confessions of a Serial Killer...."

June 4, 2004 Column by Louis Black

In Memoriam: Sarah Jacobson

Sarah Jacobson

"...Jacobson, who had previously helmed I Was a Teenage Serial Killer in 1993, formed Station Wagon Productions with her..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Latest in Paper

Kurt Wallender, a senior detective with the Ystad Police Department, is the focus of a series of international bestsellers by Swedish author Henning Mankell. Police procedurals, these kinds of novels are called, but these books are about police procedure the way Philip K. Dick's science fiction was about star wars: not really.

"...The Kurt Wallander Series Faceless Killers, The Dogs of Riga, The White Lioness, Sidetracked, The..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Jesus Hopped the "A" Train

The artists of Mainline Theater Project have given their all to the characters and story of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Jesus Hopped the "A" Train, but sadly, what they have given their all to is a long-winded, superficial, ultimately unenlightening story of ruined life in the New York City criminal justice system.

"...Weak-but-Nice Guard, the Ambitious-to-the-Point-of-Fatally-Flawed Girl Public Defender, the Holy-Roller Serial Killer (African-American), and the Crushed-by-the-System First-Time Felon (Latino). Squandered..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Quake

Every visit to Hyde Park Theatre brings a discovery of something new, and in the case of Quake, it's playwright Melanie Marnich, whose surrealistic tale of a woman in search of a perfect love, a big love, a love that makes the earth move, is witty and perceptive.

"...unlikely places (like in the person of a female serial killer), even if it means swimming across an ocean...."

June 6, 2003 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Adaptation.

"...next big thing in Hollywood as his highly derivative serial-killer screenplay -- his first, written with the help of..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Centerfold Girls

"...Bolling, Aldo Ray, Ray Danton and Mike Mazurki. A serial killer offs pinup girls...."

Dec. 3, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dahmer

"...Hannibal Lecter's brooding intellectualism than Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer's offhanded brutalities. Like its subject, the film is..."

July 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Son of the Bride

In this Argentinean film, a single dad and businessman struggles to keep his personal life afloat while undergoing a midlife crisis.

"...disturbing movies (I called it Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer as a Young Child if that gives you..."

May 3, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Weakness of the Flesh

Actor Bill Paxton gets behind the camera for his directorial debut, the Texas gothic terror tale, Frailty.

"...as you are as an actor picks a religious serial killer flick right out of the gate. And it's..."

April 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Independent

"...such unlikely collaborators as an orthodontists' union and convicted serial killer William Henry Ellis (Hankin). (The latter, restrained with..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

American Psycho

Mary Harron's film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel, American Psycho, frequently hits the mark, thanks to leading man Christian Bale.

"...Ellis' novel? Or, would audiences suffer through another watered-down serial killer movie? Luckily, Harron's adaptation of Ellis' story frequently..."

June 22, 2001 Screens Review by Mike Emery

They Lost My Grandmother's Brain

One lover of the grape interviews another - one who writes songs and plays music.

"...is known and world famous for being the first serial killer, but this Austin case -- this Servant Girl..."

July 21, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Bicentennial Man

"...actor so desperately in need of role as a serial killer. That said, the trailers for Bicentennial Man did..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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