GONE BABY GONE
Directed by Ben Affleck. In Wide Release.
"... one of the graces of Gone Baby Gone is its sensitivity to real struggle, to the lived-in spaces and worn-out consciences that can come when despair turns into nihilism."
Reviewed by Manohla Dargis, The New York Times.
RUNNING DOWN A DREAM
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. DVD Release.
"Free-falling through 30 years of continuous musical reinvention and 145 songs, Peter Bogdanovich's four-hour docu on Tom Petty goes down as smoothly as well-aged whiskey. Rather than fashioning a standard-issue, VH1-type rise-and-fall-and-rise-again biodoc, Bogdanovich includes little material that does not relate, directly or indirectly, to the evolution of the music. Result is a feast for Petty fans and a joyous confirmation of the vitality of the collective creative process."
Reviewed by Ronnie Scheib, Variety.