Giant still has a reputation as a fine film, and it will no doubt go on boring audiences forever and a day, and then another day after that.
Giant defines the word interminable, and watching it just once is guaranteed to lop at least a year off your life.
The film features Sam Fuller’s punchy combination of crazy vulgarities and keen psychological insights.
A shoddy presentation of a great film.
The films of Jacques Demy take adolescent romantic dreams and utterly vindicate them.
Essential for admirers of Jacques Demy, and that should be everybody.
Hollywood has been especially harsh on its aging actresses lately.
There’s no satire here, none of the self-loathing knock ‘em dead showbiz hatred that fuels much of Martin Short’s freaky persona.
Mad TV fans will no what I’m talking about when I say: Viva Dorothy Lanier!
The non-stop bitchiness on display might make you forget that the image quality leaves much to be desired.
The film is a tart, observant look at the seductiveness of revenge and its generally empty aftertaste.
All of Robert Aldrich’s early work is intriguing, but Autumn Leaves is his secret gem.
The film clings to the honeyed morbidity of sultry music and smart talk, yet it also puts the sting into an archetypally Gallic l’amour fou.
Josef Von Sternberg’s rock solid adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy has been long overshadowed for a number of reasons.
Though Katharine Hepburn eventually emerges as the star of the movie, Ginger Rogers is the touchstone of its style.