It’s no Superbad, but Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart’s sterling chemistry make Adventureland worthwhile.
Taxidermia is merely slimy biological vaudeville.
Aside from some gray flickering in a scene or two, Raoul Coutard’s imagery bursts with color and soft-edged, subversive beauty.
The dualities that abound in Jean-Luc Godard’s film are ubiquitous at whatever starting point one chooses.
The film’s absurdism-via-naturalism aesthetic utterly deflates when the big night at the “Bonin’ Motel” arrives.
Director Karen Shakhnazarov is most adept at nonlinear transitions.
Local Color takes every cliché of nascent-artist movies and serves them up with an arrogant lack of shame.
What would another occupation bring, and when will Israel and the U.S. join 111 nations in signing a cluster-bomb ban agreement?
Director Aida Begic does well in establishing her protagonist’s dogged labor as grief put into memorial, kinetic action.
Sex Positive is a bracingly unsentimental and evocative documentary about AIDS politics in ’80s America
A featurette or liner notes elaborating on the subversive qualities of the film would have been nice.
The film is structured like a comedy, but outfitted with only the most tedious sexual-identity riffs, generic characterizations, and no singular point of view.
Perhaps Denis’s most approachable mix of humanism and erotic meditation.
The film meditates on the myriad permutations of love and sensuality, from familial longings to food fetishes.
Robert Mitchum doesn’t remotely overshadow the film’s first-rate ensemble of character actors.
Downbeat ’70s crime with Beantown vowels, and a Hollywood icon’s masterful melancholy.
Sergei Loznitsa assembles an intuitive portrait of 1950s life in the Soviet Union from archival state-produced films.
To the annals of romantic stalker comedies, the appallingly creepy Management adds pretension and may blaze new, jaw-dropping territory.
It’s easier to think of the film as a qualified success given its undeniable recovery from a laughably abysmal opening scene.
Now that the geeks have inherited the earth, Objectified examines their ethos and process for remaking it through industrial design.