October 10, 2010
The Way Back (2010) ****
An inspiring drama directed by Peter Weir, based on a real-life story recounted by Captain Rupert Mayne, a British intelligence officer in Calcutta, who in 1942 interviewed three emaciated men, who have escaped from a Soviet gulag and walked across Siberian forests, Mongolian deserts and Himalayan mountains. The same story has been told in the 1956 bestselling novel "The Long Walk" by Slawomir Rawicz (who falsely claimed that it happened to him).
Winter's Bone (2010) ****
Amazingly insightful, scarily realistic portrait of a rural, white-trash, hillbilly Ozark community devastated by methamphetamine, cruelty, betrayal, suspicion and despair. But the film isn't about despair, but about the most basic and elementary kind of courage - the kind a 17-year-old girl must have to face an unforgiving world where her mother is mentally unstable, her younger siblings need food, and her father has just skipped bail (putting their house as collateral). She will either find him, dead or alive, or face eviction. Jennifer Lawrence is amazing in the lead role and the film won the top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival.
Toy Story 3 (2010) ****
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