Results tagged “appaloosa”

Samuel L. Jackson—who, as Anthony Lane at the New Yorker notes, is about to turn 60—stars in Lakeview Terrace, a suburban noir featuring Jackson as an L.A. cop and single dad who cannot stand the liberal mixed-race couple next door. It's directed but not written by Neil LaBute, though Lane thinks "it sounds a lot like him, in the lethal simmer of its conversation...It’s a shame, then, that the later stages of Lakeview Terrace should overheat and spill into silliness... The first hour of the film, however, with Jackson in command, feels dangerous, necessary, and rife with comic disturbance. Just like the man himself." A.O. Scott at the Times hates the movie, calling it "glib...Bernie Mac did more with the topic in a few throwaway moments of the lamebrain comedy Guess Who than Mr. Jackson manages in all of Lakeview Terrace."