• The Shallows

    The Shallows

    THE SHALLOWS may not be deep, but it is about something, and, to boot, smartly ironic. Blake Lively makes her way, as the generically named surfer “Nancy,” a med school student re-evaluating her life, to a secluded Mexican beach. She is solo, as her girlfriend travel companion is laid up from a bender the night…

  • Savages

    Savages

    On the day I saw SAVAGES, I heard two critics on NPR call it one of the worst movies ever made and read a review in the New York Times that made it sound as if it were touched by poetry. Then I discovered on the app I use to check for show times that…