RonenRecommends | All posts published by author 'Ronen Divon'

Ronen's Rating System:

*****	A must watch
****	Worth seeing
***	If you must watch a movie and there is nothing else out there
**	Don’t bother
*	It’s so bad its almost good... not... These are films I walked out on, or just fell asleep
(K: stars)	Rating by my children. As they are easy to please, would typically be higher than mine...

The Skeleton Twins (2014) ***

Posted on 10/12/2014 9:27 PM By Ronen Divon

Part observation, part commentary, The Skeleton Twins follows that dysfunctional unit we like to call a family. More particularly, the film highlights a bond between two sibling who drifted apart years before, and suddenly find themselves together again.

Bears (2014) * (k: ***)

Posted on 10/5/2014 5:01 PM By Ronen Divon

Bears is a nature documentary, directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, and narrated by John C. Reilly. Soft around the edges, Bears avoids gruesome scenes that typically accompany movies about wildlife. The filmmakers manage to put together a decent narrated plot, following a family of grizzly bears – a mom and two young cubs, as they venture from their hibernation home onto an Alaskan spring, summer and fall.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) ***

Posted on 9/29/2014 6:12 PM By Ronen Divon

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a political drama, directed by Mira Nair, to a screenplay by William Wheeler and Rutvik Oza. It tells the story of a USA alien resident, named Changez from Pakistan. Changez, who was educated at Princeton and later finds work at a lucrative American corporation, loves the USA. He is a smart, ambitious young man, who sees a future for himself in America; that is, until 9/11. After that, everything changes.

The Calling (2014) ****

Posted on 9/28/2014 2:49 PM By Ronen Divon

The Calling is a Canadian crime-thriller, directed by Jason Stone to a screenplay by Scott Abramovitch. It tells the story of a police inspetcor at a rural Ontario town, being faced with a string of unusual murders that disrupt her quiet, gloomy life.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013, Sweden) ****

Posted on 9/27/2014 9:16 PM By Ronen Divon

Think of this film as a Swedish adaptation of Forrest Gump. Here too we have a protagonist whose life-story spans events and generations, putting him in front of world leaders, scientists and rebels. I enjoyed it and recommend if you are looking for something zany and are overly critical.

The Drop (2014) ****

Posted on 9/27/2014 9:06 PM By Ronen Divon

The Drop, a crime drama directed by Michaël R. Roskam to a script by Dennis Lehane, is both familiar and fresh. There is a rough edge to The Drop that places it in a different category than other films in the genre. Recommended if you like the genre.