The Last Vermeer

Mark Kermode

Based on a true story, but they take tremendous liberties there...a film full of grandstanding moments that are entirely made up, but I enjoyed it as that, rather than it trying to be anything else... ( Read More )

Sean P. Means

Friedkin and his screenwriting team... have trouble deciding whose movie this really is. ... Friedkin cant seem to choose, leaving a muddled mess between them. ( Read More )

The only question worth pursuing is where allegiances lie, a quandary that bedevils the blandly heroic Piller, a man whose only crumb of characterization is that hes a Dutch Jew in a Canadian uniform. ( Read More )

Ty Burr

A sweeping and serious minded World War II era drama arriving in theaters this week, its handsomely filmed, well acted, and hollower than it wants to be, with a mid movie revelation that rearranges the moral stakes in ways that dampen the telling. ( Read More )