by Shawn Stone
May 23, 2013

Michael Shannon is both chilling and sympathetic in this based-on-a-true-story crime drama about a hitman with a normal family life. Richard Kuklinski (Shannon) does his day’s work—shooting, poisoning, stabbing, and then dismembering the resulting corpses—and ...
by The Staff
January 5, 2012

Critic: Shawn Stone
Best of 2011
1. Melancholia
A lost soul (Kirsten Dunst, wonderful) is fulfilled by doom in Lars von Trier’s lovely—and often very funny—vision of a personal and/or global apocalypse.
2. Contagion
Steven Soderbergh deftly evoked the horror ...