The Limey is one of many American films released in 1999 that seemed to be saying goodbye to the rebel spirit that allowed indies and mainstream movies to comingle as they had in the ’70s.
Many reviews have pointed out that 42 is a very conventional screen biography of Jackie Robinson. It is.
Robert Redford’s film is blindly cocooned by its own nostalgic self-regard.
What very good company Robert Redford keeps indeed.
This deceptively modest bundle of butt-kicking and betrayal gets a top-notch transfer from Lionsgate.
Soderbergh’s latest is all aloof propulsion, and like Contagion, it’s ultimately inconsequential.