New York magazine’s excellent film critic David Edelstein has done a public service by reviewing the winter awards films in the same place. Thumbs up (with some reservations) to Revolutionary Road, Doubt, The Wrestler, and Benjamin Button. Not so much The Reader, Edelstein cousels, and the long march of Che. (“You start to look forward to Che getting riddled by bullets.”) A wildcard: John Leguizamo’s Where God Left His Shoes, parts of which is “almost too painful to endure.”
Read it at New York
