It’s a quiet, intimate film, the exact opposite of the alternatively bombastic and analytical orientation of Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere.
The Help is almost always more successful relating black experience than either white brutality or magnanimity.
Gun Hill Road has a realism problem, but the film brims over with interest and insight.
The schizophrenic conception of Ryan Gosling’s character is indicative of the film’s largely dichotomous view of romantic relationships.
In Kevin Macdonald’s project, what ultimately unites mankind is its banality.
In the end, it’s relentless shoulder-shrugging pessimism more than misguided quirk that sinks the project.
Let’s dispense with the central question posed by Friends with Benefits right away.
The film is less concerned with the Holocaust per se than it is with the question of historical memory and the process of its recovery.
While there’s a fine line between the sacred and kitschy, Julie Bertuccelli’s film nearly always falls on the latter half of the divide.
The truth is an ever elusive concept, especially in the films of Errol Morris.
The film more than just sets up Sholem Aleichem’s life as representative of the transitions of early modern Jewish life.
James Marsh’s Project Nim too often trades complex analysis for easy sentiment.
In retrospect, of course, it was an all-star production.
In the director’s skillful handling, it not only makes for riveting cinematic drama, but for first-rate muckraking.
Billed as the first feature film to be shot on a flip camera, A Love Affair of Sorts looks it.
The Names of Love is intimately concerned with history, identity, and what it means to be a political being in contemporary France.
The film unfolds as a compendium of tuneful performances bracketed with the barest of contextualization.
Life lessons abound in Buck, most of them tied to endlessly reiterated comparisons between man and horse.
Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley’s Battle for Brooklyn keeps its nose to the concrete.
Ben Sombogaart’s film is sorely lacking in any kind of empathetic payoff.