TV Review: ‘Bates Motel’
“My mother just gets … impulsive. She has these ideas about things …” That’s 17-year-old Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) in the premiere episode of “Bates Motel,” explaining to his admiring new...
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘The Judge’
Leave out Robert Downey, Jr., and The Judge looks like a painfully old-fashioned exercise in the Tradition of Quality. Big-city defense attorney Hank Palmer (that’s Downey) comes home to Indiana just...
View ArticleTV Review: ‘Bates Motel’
“My mother just gets … impulsive. She has these ideas about things …” That’s 17-year-old Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) in the premiere episode of “Bates Motel,” explaining to his admiring new...
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Film Review: ‘The Judge’
Robert Downey, Jr. and Vera Farmiga Leave out Robert Downey, Jr., and The Judge looks like a painfully old-fashioned exercise in the Tradition of Quality. Big-city defense attorney Hank Palmer (that’s...
View ArticleReview: Return to Paradise
[Originally written for Amazon in 1998] Set the wayback machine to 1998. Parallax View presents reviews of films released 20 years ago, written by our contributors for various papers and websites....
View Article2000 Eyes: Autumn in New York
[Written for Film.com] Like most movies, Autumn in New York has a way of stating its themes in dialogue, so we don’t miss the point. In one scene, hip restaurateur Richard Gere asks his best buddy why...
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