Mac

Odd title for a gangland film, no? Perhaps not if it's the Mafia version of Shakespeare's cursed play, MacBeth. They even managed to keep the witches in Turturro's modern retelling of the Elizabethan classic. If you are that rare combination of... Full review

I just joined imdb because I couldn't sit by and let someone denigrating this great film be the initial thing people see in its summary.Mac is a film with shortcomings like any other but it does not deserve to be... Full review

Enjoyed this entire film, having grown up in Queens, N.Y.it brought back great memories of how hard it was for the Italian people to work at their skills as builders. John Turturro, and Nicholas Turturro gave excellent performances and Ellen... Full review

john turturro plays his dad. hes really really into construction, carpentry, building houses. he quits the job for his jerk off boss and he and his brothers start their own business. then he starts pushing his brothers around kind of... Full review

Boy, this is bad. It's as if Turturro, playing method as Barton Fink, had rapped out his own screenplay about "the common man" and somehow saw it get before the cameras. The opening few minutes are fine, but then goes... Full review

MDT If noble efforts automatically made for good movies, "Mac" would be among the best.....But as the boss of this project, Mac is so autocratic....And Turturro the director has a very nice visual sense..... ... Full Review

If noble efforts automatically made for good movies, "Mac" would be among the best. They are rooted in the work ethic, but Mac has gone overboard, which makes everyone around him slightly crazy. ... Full Review

direct as well.... ... Full Review

This kind of aesthetic fervor is a rare thing in the movies these days, but it shows in every frame of this sometimes elegiac, sometimes insanely funny, mostly impressive new film. As Mac's surprisingly resourceful wife, Katherine Borowitz effortlessly manages to steal every scene she's in, perhaps because her eyes are so expressive that their nonverbal messages are all that can be heard above the shouting. ... Full Review

The best parts of the movie....Their first major project, building four houses, requires such devotion....At times, Turturro handles character interaction well.... ... Full Review

George Clooney and Carl Reiner in "Ocean's Thirteen." The rest of "Ocean's Thirteen" has a pleasingly casual, raffish quality -- it's enjoyable to watch, particularly if you've got nothing better to do. ... Full Article

John Turturro 's first film as a writer-director, 'Mac', was an impressive realist drama inspired by his construction-worker father.His second, 'Illuminata', was a more ambitious if slightly clumsy affair celebrating theatrical life. ... Full Article