Mythology bites back against centuries of whitewashing by capitalism and Catholicism in Dick Maas’s holiday slasher.
Brady Kiernan’s film is constantly corrupted by biased politics and crass emotional digressions.
Call it a guilty pleasure, if you must, but Tron: Legacy is the sort of spectacle that makes people go to the movies and it looks spectacular on Blu-ray.
Fire in Babylon simply can’t help but take it easy.
The politics of the schoolyard are more important than the politics of London in Kes.
The sheer oddness of trolls and their mythology outweighs the threat of their power and mysticism in André Øvredal’s Trollhunter.
The Cable Guy now seems a prophetic dark comedy and a key into the sensibilities of Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, and Judd Apatow.
A seminal work in the advancement of the crime film.
Treme’s deeply humane treatment of a communal tragedy, not a national one, quite simply blows the doors off the place.
The Switch remains another easily disposable entertainment built out of the rubble of a promising literary prospect.
The triumph of films like this is the triumph of cowardice, complacency, and stealth conformity.
As one might surmise, there’s very little of a concise plot to be found here, but the overall result is invigorating and even haunting, especially in its final moments.
The Romanian New Wave rolls on with Bogdan George Apetri’s Outbound.
Essentially timeless, Hospitalité‘s conceit unfolds as a broad parable for post-industrialist Japan.
Man Without a Cell Phone is an irrefutably pleasant, yet terminally half-hearted comedy.
There are, in fact, two games being played throughout Denis Côté’s Curling.
Neither sentimentality nor nostalgia for reckless years gone by can be found in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Belle Epine.
Director Pia Marais is deft at summoning the promise and warmth of domesticity.
Radical body humor remains the chief focus in the third installment of the highly divisive Jackass series.
Welles’s feverish, politically uneasy noir remains an outstanding achievement