Jack Mathews over at the New York Daily News has reviewed the latest Sidney Lumet film “Before the Devil Knows You're Dead” and he doesn’t spare his admiration for the Director or his work. The review starts with a weak introduction to Lumet that states that he is one of the preeminent “New York” film makers while doing little to make the reader believe it. Next, despite a brief synopsis at the beginning of the article, Mathews provides an even more lackluster and equally brief description of the plot. Incased in this review is minimal description of, well, anything. The actors are lightly mentioned and so is any information of what the movie is. It is “grim” and that “Lumet chose to tell this story with a fractured time line” but I don’t know why or what affect this has on the movie or the audience. This review tells me nothing except that Jack Matthews likes Sidney Lumet and that I don’t need to read any more of his reviews.