Los Angeles

If Harmony Korine hadn’t already made the year’s boldest statement on the amoral, thrill-seeking hedonism of 21st-century adolescence in his sensory-assaulting, taboo-teasing, and surprisingly thoughtful Spring Breakers, then Sofia Coppola’s take on the insta-infamy of “The Bling Ring” gang – a band of privileged young women who started burglarizing celebrities in the Hollywood Hills just a handfu...[Read More]

While certainly loud, somewhat sexy, and decked out in all the accurate aesthetic trappings of 1930s Los Angeles, Gangster Squad turns out to be merely a dim cousin to sincere works like L.A. Confidential or Michael Mann’s intimate Public Enemies due to a battery of corny, faux-noir line readings and the bludgeoning candy-gore sensibility of Zombieland and 30 Minutes or Less director Ruben Fleisch...[Read More]