Arts

We need a Jack Ryan who seizes the screen; this one only glides around the edges.

There are some big laughs, but they’re like life rafts floating in an immense sea of bitterness.

It’s impossible to talk about “The Great Beauty” without bringing up Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vida.”

… I might love the film even more if it showed even a teeny bit of heart, but then it wouldn’t be a Coen Brothers movie.