The Hangover Part III is a sequel every bit as disposable as its predecessor.
Here’s everything you wanted to know about The Great Escape but were too lazy to ask.
Justin Lin strives to approximate something like Ocean’s Eleven for petrosexuals.
The clarity and inventiveness of J.J. Abrams’s direction keeps the drama and the action constantly percolating.
Warner Home Vidoe does good by Cloud Atlas’s technical skill.
Wang Bing’s no-frills style of documentation visually echoes the preadolescent trio’s simple yet unforgiving world and its sense of labor as life.
Tina Gordon Chism’s film collapses into a series of clumsy improvisatory sketches, tied up in cheap, risibly sentimental catharsis.
Director Shane Black here replaces his once-acidic spite for government and bureaucracy with a call for corporate responsibility.
The film lands on Blu-ray with a characteristically stunning A/V transfer and hugely insightful supplements from Criterion.
David Siegel and Scott McGehee’s film renders the rhapsodic Henry James novel of the same name into an abhorrent slice of tasteless familial drama.
Offers all the ingredients for a great feast of enticing visions and thematic concerns, only to have them be prepared, plated, and served with the grace of Elmer Fudd.
Arvin Chen’s Taiwan is dominated by eccentricity in tone and atmosphere, but in a very careful, pronounced way, as to never really run the danger of being truly strange.
The weirdly direct connections made and explored are unlikely, but are performed with such engaging and strange conviction that the film nearly overcomes the thinness of its conceit.
Nobuteru Uchida’s Odayaka is only truly memorable in its bashful cynicism.
Most of the big narrative turns feel both predictable and forced, and at odds with the natural charms of the cast.
Funny, moving, honest, and occasionally inspiring, but as a portrait of a talent emerging from the shadow of a more public talent, the scale of the shadow is curiously omitted.
The film is remarkable for innumerable reasons, not least of which for making a New York City summer seem not like hell on Earth.
A frothy mixture of costume drama and soap opera, Neil Jordan’s show brandishes moral outrage and a blunt understanding of politics.
Howard’s faux-Tolkienian epic of burdensome adventuring gets a royal treatment from Fox with an excellent A/V transfer and a solid bundle of extras.
Lee’s fantastical and frustrating Oscar-winner is kept afloat on Blu-ray by Fox’s highly commendable A/V transfer and a bundle of helpful, relevant extras.