The film’s awkwardness is expressive of the pain and confusion of wrestling with truths that shake one’s conception of identity.
New York, New York, like most Martin Scorsese films, is about the trials and glories of making art.
Criterion very ably honors the neurotic beauty of The Fugitive Kind, though new extras would’ve been appreciated.
The film is but one deliberately imperfect piece of a vast slipstream.
Contemporary outrage could’ve potentially counterpointed the film’s increasingly mawkish tendencies.
The cast and crew interviews are the star of this disc, elaborating on the making of a misunderstood cult classic.
Joel Kinnaman has rarely been allowed to utilize his tightly wound intensity this explicitly.
The series preserves Stephen King novel’s ingenious plot while entirely altering its tone.
The film’s skittishness is particularly maddening considering that Allen has nothing to artistically prove.
Schrader’s lively and despairing first film as director has never been more relevant.
Chinonye Chukwu’s film is a morality play with a true sense of contradiction and melancholia.
What She Said is enjoyable, but one suspects that its subject may have found it soft.
Ironically, Clint Eastwood is as condescending of Jewell as the bureaucrats he despises.
This gnarly, amazing, quasi-hypocritical action thriller has been outfitted with an improved transfer and a superb bounty of extras.
Synapse takes what was already arguably the best single-title home-video release of 2018 and makes it exponentially more essential.
It’s the mix of the humane and the calculating that gives the film its empathetic power.
Hausner discusses wanting to sustain the tension of the first act of a Body Snatchers production over the course of an entire narrative.
Strickland’s film is another fetish object that rues the perils of fetishism.
Jessica Hausner confidently expresses a thorny and disturbing theme, though perhaps with too much confidence.
At the center of the documentary is the struggle to reconcile the personal and political elements of art-making.