Thelma Adams Archive
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Critic’s Pick: ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’
Posted on August 17, 2013 | No Commentsfrom Yahoo! Movies www.movies.yahoo.com Like a bastard love child of Terrence Malick and Robert Altman, David Lowery’s crime drama shuffles to its own drummer. Either you dance to it or […] -
Critic’s Pick: ‘Only God Forgives’ reviewed by Thelma Adams
Posted on July 19, 2013 | No CommentsMust-See Movies Beyond the Blockbusters We’ve all heard the stories of the Cannes Film Festival audience booing the premiere of “Only God Forgives,” Nicolas Winding Refn’s first film after “Drive” […] -
Critic’s Pick: ‘The Hunt’
Posted on July 15, 2013 | No CommentsMust-See Movies Beyond the Blockbusters A kindergartner kisses her teacher on the lips in the school playroom. Taken aback by the unexpected intimacy, the teacher nonetheless sets her straight: little […] -
How Whoopi Goldberg revealed the inspiration for Eddie Murphy’s Drag Granny and Tyler Perry’s Madea
Posted on June 21, 2013 | No CommentsOne of the many interesting discoveries in Whoopi Goldberg’s Moms Mabley biopic, “I’ve Got Somethin’ to Tell You,” which I saw at the Provincetown Town Hall with John Waters in […] -
Critic’s Pick: ‘The Bling Ring’
Posted on June 17, 2013 | No CommentsMust-See Movies Beyond the Blockbusters Love her or hate her, Sofia Coppola has cornered the market on the world of privilege and its discontents. And so it goes with the […] -
Critic’s Pick: ‘Before Midnight’ – You’re on, Armond
Posted on May 25, 2013 | No CommentsMust-See Movies Beyond the Blockbusters “Before Midnight,” the third and richest collaboration between Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and director Richard Linklater, finds the French and American couple Celine (Julie Delpy) […] -
Critic’s Pick: ‘Frances Ha’
Posted on May 21, 2013 | No CommentsWhile bromances flourish – doctors, racecar drivers and superheroes bond regularly — memorable movies about best girlfriends are a rare species. But in that environment, “Frances Ha,” the brilliant black-and-white […] -
Adams on Reel Women: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ — it isn’t pretty!
Posted on June 10, 2012 | No CommentsBeauty is a bitch. That’s always animated the Snow White story: Vanity and jealousy drive the evil stepmother queen to slip Snow White that poisoned apple. Now, along comes “Snow […] -
Adams on Reel Women: Maiwenn Pulls no Punches in ‘Polisse’
Posted on June 10, 2012 | No CommentsAmericans want the French with baguettes and berets,” the actress-writer-director Julie Delpy (“Before Sunrise”) told me last month, “The way French people handle sexuality is too controversial for American audiences.” […]