The particulars of the central mystery are mundane, to the point where the film itself doesn’t spend too much time digging into them.
Luke Holland’s documentary is a gift of memory to future generations.
Ultimately, the film’s most impactful terrors have nothing to do with things that go bump in the night.
By paring their story down so much, the filmmakers only end up highlighting just how little it contains.
The series yanks together too many disparate elements without the necessary connective tissue.
Tim Sutton is a deft cartographer of how environments can shape its inhabitants.
Anthony and Joe Russo’s film can never quite escape the essential hollowness of Cherry as a character.
A sickened rage and psychological nuance courses through every meticulously arranged frame of the film.
Shaka King’s film, anchored by two sterling lead performances, complicates the expected narrative of martyrdom.
Questlove’s Summer of Soul is as much an essential music documentary as it is a public service.
The film is so economical in its momentum, and its tone of comic wistfulness so uniform, that its string of tableaux rarely feels jerky.
At its best, the film’s romance comes alive through some well-wrought dialogue that rarely ventures into faux-period eloquence.
The series misses out on the chance to make a more memorable study of an unforgettable crime spree.
Ramin Bahrani’s film is a turbulent and snarkily self-aware melodrama about breathless social climbing.
Phyllida Lloyd’s film cannot escape its own somewhat mundane self-set contours.
The film shows a preference for forgiveness over vengeance, which feels like an okay way to end this particular year.
The Father approximates the dislocation of its main character’s mind with a frighteningly slippery ease.
The film is affectingly poignant in its frequently uncomfortable presentation of MacGowan’s physical ruination.
Hillbilly Elegy feels like a bland feel-good story rather than one part of a longer tragedy with no clear end.
The film doesn’t deliver much in the way of surprises, but it’s more honest than it might initially seem.