The film is a modern melodrama of grit, beauty, jagged edges, and resonant dead ends and false starts.
Unlike Malcom & Marie, Daniel Brühl’s feature-length directorial debut proves to be authentically self-castigating.
The film suggests a fusion of an eco-doc and acid western, and this disparity between genres results in a mysterious tension.
Time and again, Crisis shortchanges the human elements of its plot lines.
As Rifkin’s Festival drones on, the wastefulness grows offensive in a manner that’s unusual even for Allen’s misfires.
This nearly free-associational thriller has been outfitted with a beautiful transfer that underscores all its eerie nooks and crannies.
Given its sharp, intricate setup, the film’s subsequent straightforwardness is disappointing.
The film is at its most moving in those rare moments when it’s capturing the nourishing bonding ritual among a deaf family.
Mark Harris’s seductive biography understands Nichols as a wizard of process.
At its best, the documentary’s aura of desolation suggests a verité version of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show.
The film is a profound disappointment in part because it feels so overdetermined to live up to Sono and Cage’s respective brands.
Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth feels like a palate cleanser for the English filmmaker.
Rodney Ascher is a sly master of mining potentially jokey or gimmicky subjects for the alienation they primordially express.
The film is a self-consciously gimmicky buddy flick that’s informed with jolts of anguish and gallows humor.
Though it feels impersonal, The Little Things nevertheless has an obsessive pull.
Rose Glass utilizes a provocative scenario for a vague and deadly serious art exercise.
The supplements on this release honor the film’s ambiguous, earnest, allusive spirit.
Kevin Macdonald’s film never captures the spectrum of a life lived in unimaginable extremis.
The film is most tragic and humorous when hints of the outside world break through the suffocatingly cheerful façade of the Villages.
The disc’s intimate extras attest to the rich, emotional core of Bing’s breakthrough documentary.