What does it say about Joe Carnahan, director of such brawny and well-loved movies as Narc and The Grey, that the work to which he chooses to pay self-homage in the lazy Boss Level is the critically reviled Smokin’ Aces?...
The three types of narrative conflict, it has been said, are Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Himself. Joe Carnahan went for the hat trick by employing all three for his new film, The Grey. It’s the...
