Anchored by an impressively modulated performance from Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt is otherwise an indecisive, weak-kneed film.
Dominik mines an altogether different vein, worlds apart from the mournful, meditative, Malickian The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
The staging is so endlessly, even incestuously, self-referential as to earn the epithet mise-en-abyme.
Spectatorship, being forced to watch from a remove while uncontrollable events transpire, is one of Amour’s subterranean themes.
The slender facts in this particular case can’t even begin to withstand the mammoth weight of a 150-minute running time.
Hillcoat’s latest cements the mainstreaming of an original.
Garrone follows up Gomorrah with a more contained treatise on surveillance as transcendence and entertainment.
The cinematography, by longtime Seidl collaborator Wolfgang Thaler, in tandem with Ed Lachman, is particularly fine.
Student attempts to do for Crime and Punishment what Darezhan Omirbaev’s earlier Chouga did for Anna Karenina.
The film is an intensification of the rigorous aesthetic preoccupations and occasionally precious thematic concerns that have long marked Anderson’s films.
One factor behind Grand Illusion’s lasting power is the strength of its ensemble cast.
Strip Nude for Your Killer is a salacious slab of sex-and-stab cinema, given a definitive Blu-ray upgrade by Blue Underground.
Give it points for daring to present a relentlessly downbeat vision of moral corruption.
Take a picture, why don’t you? The Asphyx shrieks its way onto a satisfying, if slender, Blu-ray package from Kino Lorber.
Lost Keaton collects 16 two-reel talkies that Buster Keaton made for Educational Pictures between 1934 and 1937.
If you require a prescription for sexploitation wackiness, you’ve come to the right place.
Samsara is another visually stunning, globe-trotting think piece from the director of Baraka.
Those hills may still have eyes, but only the hardiest fans should have their eyes on The Hills Have Eyes Part 2.
Less interested in the fluidic facts of getting fucked that dominate teen sex comedies, the film wants to examine varieties of discomfort.
Forgetting Chinatown will be exceedingly difficult with this stunning new Blu-ray release.