Money corrupts, Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s would say. Easy money corrupts completely.
The film knots several strands of new-millennium despair into something that very nearly approximates greatness in its first half.
The deconstruction of corporatized play culture gets run through the sequelizer machine, with predictably acrid results.
Chris Smith’s documentary about the 2017 Fyre Festival implosion resists the urge to revel in cheap social media schadenfreude.
It’s an imagination-starved redo of The Happening crossbred with a more malevolent strain of zombie-flick DNA.
After a while, it all starts to feel like a showreel for the film’s special-effects team than an honest effort to tell a story.
The documentary is probably best viewed not as a record of the past but a document of what’s to come.
The fun but more predictable Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald moves the new series forward, but only incrementally.
The extras are sweet, but Clerks’s low-budget ugliness is a questionable fit for Blu-ray.
They’re on the road to nowhere, and looking good getting there.
Ko Nakahira slyly uses the conventions of the postwar teen rebellion flick while simultaneously undercutting them with his own jagged rhythms.
This is a comedy that gets away with more than it deserves, even using “Everybody Hurts” on the soundtrack.
Unlike its many star basketball players, the film is both underachieving and self-hagiographic.
More raucous character study than Backdraft-style heroics; good but not quite great examples of either.
The film is a lunatic sci-fi thriller that only loses its nerve somewhere close to the end.
James Cagney shoots a horse, and gets himself a career.
A ripping thriller shadowed with overtones of societal decay and Darwinian selection.
Contrary to popular opinion, the best moment in The Public Enemy isn’t when Jimmy Cagney shoves a grapefruit in his girlfriend’s face.
Much of what’s on display here evokes a society on the decline, propping itself up with patriotic guff, fairy tales, and violence.
A hugely ambitious and hugely successful crime epic whose plot tentacles just keep on spreading, wonderfully so.