Angelina Jolie best expresses psychology through escalating interactions between people and settings.
Throughout, Nathan Silver fuses the emotional bigness of melodrama with his unique form of quotidian portraiture.
In the film, Hong Sang-soo simultaneously positions filmmaking as the ultimate act of atonement and evasion.
The film suggests a college course and a guided tour wedded together as a work of prismatic humanist art.
Spoor blends its mystery with a character study, allowing the genres to uncomfortably cohabitate.
A superlative restoration of a key film in Alfred Hitchcock’s evolution as a master explorer of sexual neuroses.
As with most Hong Sang-soo films, it engages in intellectual gamesmanship while courting emotional pathos.
China Girl can’t even allow the audience to enjoy the pleasures of detection one expects from mystery shows.
Initially colorful, the screenplay’s lurid and overripe dialogue eventually grinds the film to a halt.
Writer-director Denis Côté’s film offers an oxymoronic parable that’s been utilized countless times by cinema.
With its dull mixture of indifferently staged exposition and action, it suggests a primitive side-scrolling video game.
It’s almost impossible for the film to honor its predecessor without lapsing into contrived and preordained formula.
The besieged family never wins and is never in danger of winning, and so we’re pummeled with unearned nihilism.
Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott’s Bushwick is a genre film with a refreshing sense of political infrastructure.
Twenty-six years after its release, it’s difficult not to watch Terminator 2: Judgment Day through a scrim of irony.
Hopefully, a re-issue of Ronald Neame’s greatly underrated Hopscotch will introduce the film to younger cinephiles in training.
The Oscar-winner discusses her activism and the liberations of shooting a complex film quickly.
Self-absorption is director Bravo’s focus, though it’s a topic that’s less examined than indulged.
A gorgeous, perceptively supplemented restoration of a pivotal early masterwork in Leigh’s career.
Mapping the intersection between history and emotion, Michael Almereyda finds himself in Alain Resnais terrain.