Yes, North Face is half a great movie. The mountain steals the show.
The film is a Gallic counterpart to American indiedom’s immigration melodrama The Visitor.
This seven-part documentary about the fight to dismantle apartheid doesn’t bend to the Great Man theory of history.
Someday this fascinating curio by a major European filmmaker will get its full due.
Michel Gondry’s documentary has been made with obvious affection and familial respect.
The Runaways feints in the direction of being an obstreperously feminist biopic worthy of its subject.
Anyone expecting an equivalent to the splendid 1992 cinematography doc Visions of Light is in for a letdown.
The disc’s image quality makes the film more of an eyesore than it already is.
The post-King era of American racial tension demands better from dramatists than lugubrious historical pageants like this.
Revanche is a remarkable vision, not only for the beautifully unnerving artistry of its images but for its quizzical existential questioning.
The filmmakers do best when the climbers’ fight for survival isn’t overwhelmed by the ominous time and place.
Electric, essential cinema framed with love and scholarly reverence.
Identity, whether anchored in family, eros, or heritage, is at the root of The Girl on the Train.
The film is the ne plus ultra of feature-length DIY video production as well as an obsessed fan-auteur’s “one-man war.”
The film provides Ellen Burstyn with a Very Special Awards-Bait Role as a dying opium addict.
The film simmers as a naturalistic drama of a haphazardly recreated family under strain.
Must Robert De Niro inflict a moribund genre botch like Everybody’s Fine on the public just in time to grinch us up for Christmas?
Its dopey, privileged-set fantasy winds up as obvious as crawling through Keanu Reeves’s open window.
The film was a singularly three-dimensional teen romance after a decade of broad gags and breakfast-club stereotypes in John Hughesland.
He gave her his heart, she gave him a pen, and Say Anything… still gives off a sweet, enveloping glow.