Movie Review Haikus!

The Hurt Locker (2008) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/

The first third had me.
Then? Just another war tale.
Maybe that’s the point?

Secrets and Lies (1996) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117589/

Deep water truth gains
Slow, determined clarity.
I should look away.

Ben-Hur (1959) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/

The film ends. I ask,
“Why so much gravitas for
A revenge Western?”

Foul Play (1978) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077578/

Hitchcock meets cynics
And wit and “Kojak Bang Bang”.
Goldie…so lovely.

The Ice Storm (1997) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119349/

We are awed, muted
By beautiful, relentless
Forces of nature.

I’m All Right Jack (1959) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052911/

The ridiculous
And the sublime war for your
Knowing laughs and tears.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029843/

Fast ride of bright joy!
Fun thrills buoyed all the more
By Technicolor!

The Posideon Adventure (1972) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069113/

More show than story.
Yelling doesn’t make up for
Lack of “characters”.

Grey Gardens (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758751/

Sadness swells as house
And mind fall apart with a
Palpable silence.

A Serious Man (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019452/

**This is the new Coen Brothers’ movie, due out on 10/2.  We saw it at an advance screening recently.**

Walks the line between
Farce and fatalism like
One who has lived both.