The movie is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), a loner, coping with the suicide of his best friend and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he can belong. The introverted freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller), who […]
As Good As It Gets
For all of its conventional plotting about an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) who improves his personality at the urging of his gay neighbor Simon (Greg Kinnear) and a waitress Carol (Helen Hunt) who inspires his best behavior, this is one of the sharpest Hollywood comedies. Nicholson could play his role in his sleep, […]
A Beautiful Mind
A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe), a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. The movie depicts how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, […]
Girl, Interrupted
In the spring of 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) voluntarily checks herself into Claymoore Hospital after overdosing on aspirin. She denies that she was attempting to commit suicide, claiming that she was just “trying to make the shit stop.” Susanna tells her therapists that she does not actually want to go to college and […]