Pleasantly wistful and nostalgic, particularly when offering clips of folk artists singing songs that would become legendary.
The jokes have been folded into the plots more organically and gracefully, and the punchlines often tend to uneasily suggest domestic abuse.
This season may reveal the show’s grand design to be rooted in a son coming to terms with his father’s unchecked avarice.
Arbitrage is a distinctive, well-acted edition to the subgenre of thriller devoted to the American white-collar scumbag.
A spry, inventive antidote to American blockbuster bloat.
V/H/S is a collection of tales of gender warfare that are scattershot, tasteless, and occasionally quite frightening.
An extensive and virtually flawless presentation of one of American cinema's most fascinatingly singular achievements.
Following is a polished and disturbing introduction to the work of, for better and worse, one of the most influential contemporary pop filmmakers.
The film is a comfortable middle-class fantasy of the moral purity of abject poverty.
The Sheik and I concerns Caveh Zahedi’s attempts to fulfill an assignment that’s hopelessly riddled with contradictions.
Lawless is a compellingly nutty and uneven gangster film.
Sometimes I wish movies about aspiring New York writers and their mundane romantic travails could somehow be converted into a renewable energy source.
The film is still one of the most glorious testaments to the frustrations and exhilarations of chasing an unvarnished truth.
Todd Kellstein doesn’t allow you to entirely indulge convenient armchair outrage.
At the end you may wonder why you just paid to watch two yuppies bicker when you could’ve seen that at the nearest P.F. Chang’s for free.
A moving and bracingly romantic refute to the pressures imposed by conventional notions of emotional fulfillment.
Festival of Lights is a conventional mother-daughter melodrama that could’ve starred Joan Crawford in her heyday.
The extras are a little, um, bare, but this transfer of one of the best American films of the year is otherwise superb.
The Revisionaries packs a quietly chilling punch.
Paranormal Activity 4 sadly continues the series’s downslide.