Kenneth Turan Articles

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Titanic HOOP DREAMS: Biggest Oscar Snubs #7c The absence of Leonardo DiCaprio and James Cameron's Titanic screenplay from the list of 1997 Oscar nominations deserves its own slot because Titanic wasn't just a movie. As the biggest worldwide grosser ever until Avatar (not taking inflation into account), Cameron's romantic adventure-melodrama was a cultural and financial phenomenon. DiCaprio's failure to get a [...]

Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Randy Couture, The Expendables Reading critics' comments, Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables sounds funnier than Dinner with Schmucks, Grown Ups, and The Other Guys put together. Better yet, the movie offers explosions, dangerous stunts, and fight scenes reminiscent of the day when action heroes were so macho, but so macho, they looked like actors in gay leather porn. Written by Stallone and [...]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception Christopher Nolan's sci-fi/thriller Inception opens Friday. Initially hailed as a masterpiece, Inception has now received several negative reviews that have lowered its Rotten Tomatoes score down from near 100% to 83%. Among RT's top critics, the score is even lower: 74%. For comparison's sake: The Dark Knight's overall score is 93% positive; 91% among top critics. Batman Begins got 84% [...]

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, whose Film Socialisme left some reviewers scratching their heads at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, A bout de souffle / Breathless grossed $32.7k at four theaters in the United States, according to Box Office Mojo. The French New Wave classic that has influenced filmmakers around the [...]