Review: Triple 9

The film arrives prepackaged with suggested comparisons to Heat that it never earns because of its dreary literal-mindedness.

Review: The Road

The set pieces largely convey the same feelings as the novel’s, but screenwriter Joe Penhall’s adaptation has a patronizing way of spelling out their significance.

Review: The Proposition

John Hillcoat and Nick Cave envision civilization’s encroachment into the wild as necessitating an abolishment of coarse impulses