RECOMMENDED Amir Bar-Lev’s second feature documentary, after “Fighter” (2001), is a firestarter. The media loved 4-year-old Marla Olmstead, a seemingly talented toddler from Binghamton, New York, whose avowed work, splatter canvases that some compared to Pollack and Kandinsky and Picasso, began to sell for thousands of dollars. The fear of exploitation by her parents grew more ominous when the canard argument of “What is art?” devolved into “Who made this art?” a few months into her time in the public eye. Bar-Lev’s film begins to question its own validity, with troubling yet gratifyingly provocative results. The last ten minutes are probably as eye-opening as any documentary about authenticity and truth could hope to be. 81m. (Ray Pride)
Heart: A Review of Soul The real world is soulful, too, in Pixar's bountiful life of the mind.
Seeing The Elephant: A Review Of Babylon The boisterous, brawling yet melancholy "Babylon," is a variation on film history, but more drawing for drama. It's gaudy and mean, celebratory and sorrowful.
A Drag Getting Old: A Review Of Indiana Jones 5 In the protracted opening couple of reels, a very young, computer-crafted Harrison Ford plays a younger cultural marauder who first encounters the dull MacGuffin of the title.
