Ever-amusing blogger and self-described Michael Mann loyalist
has dubbed movie awards blogger Kris Tapley “the anti-Lumenick” because Tapley filed an embargo-breaking “Public Enemies”
that Wells more closely agreed with than my since-redacted blog
that outraged Wells so much last week that he labeled me a “Mann-hater” (Hardly true, though I think he is vastly overrated as an director). Yet, if you read Tapley closely, he’s not saying anything that contradicts my assessment of the movie’s awards or box-office chances, which was the main point of my post. At one point, Tapley’s 3.5 star rave turns downright snarly: “The unexpected dead weight on the proceedings is Christian Bale, who, as FBI agent Melvin Purvis, brings nothing to an already underwritten role.” That’s pretty mild, though, compared to the
fired yesterday by a professional critic, the Hollywood Reporter’s ever-reliable Kirk Honeycutt: “A missed opportunity..slow to heat up and never quite comes to a boil…lacks the juice promised by the teaming of such extraordinary filmmakers with a cast as large as a Hooverville encampment.” So far, Variety’s Todd McCarthy seems to be holding his fire until tomorrow’s review embargo, but his former boss Peter Bart has
with what appears to be the first U.S. review of “Bruno,” which beleagured Universal has officially embargoed until July 6.
