It refuses to honestly, and thoroughly, interrogate the hard data of gun violence and mental-health research.
There’s a fundamental lack of dramatic exigency in writer-director Puk Grasten’s storytelling.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls still seduces like barbed wire in a red dress.
The film is further confirmation of Mia Hansen-Løve’s delicately devastating ear and touch as a filmmaker.
Any perceptive dialogue or contemporary socio-political subtext is pummeled by Jonás Cuarón’s preference for empty genre thrills.
It initiates a narrative that probes the fundamental gap between wanting to help and actually being able to do so.
Elite Zexer’s film has its blips of feeling and significance, but they’re too few on the whole.
Criterion’s Blu-ray should prove to be a landmark release for progressing home-video distribution/filmmaker collaborations.
The film provides materials for discussion without directing the viewer toward a particular solution or easy answer.
Robert Kenner’s stylistic choices amplify the film’s fetishistic fascination with the nuclear weaponry itself.
Christian Carion’s film shamelessly wrings excitement from the recreation of violent ideological conflict.
It insists that it’s in moments of small talk, between life’s larger events, that one finds vitality.
One of the most heralded films of the Japanese New Wave is back in print on a solid new Blu-ray edition.
A Taste of Honey is an essential title in global cinema’s shift toward investigating the inner lives of quotidian folk.
The film appears to have been devised to pander to the presumptions of Western, liberal viewers.
Arrow Video’s thoroughly awesome Blu-ray set is sure to remain among the year’s most essential releases.
Compassionate and structurally intriguing, Stig Björkman’s documentary is a stellar portrait of a great artist.
Its tinkering with historical record would be more welcome if it also shifted away from the standard biopic template.
Tracy Droz Tragos’s documentary examines its titular subject with a compassionate eye for regional detail.
Waters discusses the changing politics of the ’70s, Divine getting raped by a lobster, and more.