Ghoul is ironically impersonal and perfunctory, suggesting the work of a polished propaganda machine.
Colin Minihan’s film benefits, above all, from Brittany Allen’s shatteringly naturalistic performance.
The film proffers the sort of cinematic nowhere place that’s all too common of an increasingly corporate, globalized cinema.
The set affirms the profound emotional power of these idiosyncratic collaborations.
Bing Liu masterfully uses his insider’s access, managing to stay inside and outside of the material at once.
Director Jeremiah Zagar’s powers of observation eclipse his feel for expressionism and melodrama.
Decker discusses her film’s flamboyant imagery and her affinity for horror.
The film is concerned above all with ensuring that we share its main character’s sense of dislocation and entrapment.
The film creates an incestuous atmosphere that’s reminiscent of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
Martin Scorsese captures the exquisite agony and pleasure of passion that’s forced to remain theoretical.
Rob Tregenza’s film is rooted in the communion as well as the sensorial challenges of savoring art.
Vahid Jalilvand’s film is so worked out that you know that every nuance is pointed and intentional.
Criterion offers a vital and macabrely beautiful rendering of an underrated and pivotal film in Bergman’s career.
Robert Schwentke proves to be too complicit with his protagonist, regarding evil and human banality as stimulation.
The film poignantly reveals that the secret history of Hollywood is really an alternate history of America.
Writer-director-actor Barbara Loden’s 1970 feature has a wonderful, hard-won sense of everyday rapture.
Hirokazu Kore-eda delights in piling on complications that lead us away from the question of guilt.
Au Hasard Balthazar is a masterpiece that deserves an updated edition with a wider range of commentary.
Jake Meginsky’s documentary is insular, precious, and too pleased with its unwillingness to reach out to the unconverted.
Dominique Rocher reinvigorates the zombie film only to succumb to the strictures of the coming-of-age romance.