The film is impressive for how it holds its protagonist’s view of the world separate from its own.
BlackBerry deflates the personalities at its center in the vein of Mike Judge and Judd Apatow.
The Teacher’s Lounge doesn’t exceed its remit by turning the story into a referendum on society.
The film is an insightful examination of a character type familiar to indie cinema.
The film deals forthrightly with the question of purpose and whether it can be found in a career.
Cat Person only succeeds when it stays in a space of mystery and unknowing.
Throughout, the film toggles between comedy, light surreality, and philosophical inquiry.
The Power of the Dog receives a 4K UHD release that matches its subtle but sumptuous beauty.
The film works hard to create excitement and emotion around an interplanetary rock hunt.
The series is a feat of logistics and scene-setting rather than narrative design.
The film breaks little new ground but is at least a notable improvement on, well, The Mousetrap.
Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul quickly blooms as a study in contrasts, sublimely juxtaposing character and culture.
The film is in tension with the more nuanced view that Ted Hall seemed to have of himself.
An update to Mark Cousins’s 15-part The Story of Film: An Odyssey, the film scans cinematic developments in the 21st century.
The film’s fantastical meta-commentaries don’t completely cohere but have a winning go-for-it audaciousness.
The Gray Man is a noisy, flashy spectacle that piles clichés atop ludicrous plotting and sprinkles it all with half-funny quips.
Patricio Guzmán’s documentary leaves open the possibility of a future for Chileans that isn’t beholden to the trauma of history.
The documentary’s aesthetic approach is purposeful, echoing the us-or-them sentiment held by the groups aiming guns at each other.
Slow Horses is more of a dark office comedy than spy show, finding most of its drama in the tension radiating between its characters.
Windfall has a difficult time landing on the right tone or getting a bead on its characters.