Inside Hana’s Suitcase is a film about the Holocaust that marginalizes the one person in the film who could tell us about the Holocaust.
Unraveled has the thrust of a great American noir or black comedy.
Last Will and Embezzlement is inept, unwatchable, and sometimes tastelessly exploitive.
Ann Hui’s A Simple Life may have one of the most accurate titles in all of cinema.
A gorgeous transfer of another bracing Spielberg oddity.
A solid transfer of an affectionate, surprisingly moving ode to an increasingly neglected pioneer of American cinema.
The film has an exhilarating tossed-off quality that characterized many of the most entertaining works of the French New Wave.
Maggie Hadleigh-West clearly has the guts, not to mention the wiliness, of a potentially major filmmaker.
Don is a character that allows us to safely indulge, with little in the way of moral inconvenience, our vicarious inner amoral shark.
The rapid fan is advised to pick up the three-disc gift set instead.
The thrust of All In is the rise and fall of poker as a mainstream middle-class, and thus safer, preoccupation.
People who’ve already convinced themselves of Reitman and Diablo Cody’s genius should appreciate Young Adult.
For a little while, Reuniting the Rubins promises to be a potentially charming trifle.
Convento is an unusual experimental film that conjures the free-floating aura of a dream.
The title is apropos, but it’s also an understatement.
The bluntly but appealingly titled Heist: Who Stole the American Dream is nothing short of a full-scale invasion film.
This smug gross-out gets a considerably better Blu-ray than it deserves.
A forgettable gangster movie gets a pointedly indifferent Blu-ray treatment.
A dull, barely coherent cop movie gets a decent Blu-ray transfer. Skip it.
The extras are skimpy, but the gorgeous transfer should please fans of Lado’s cult oddity.