The film mostly fails to make a convincing case for Aardman’s old-school artisanal approach.
The film’s aura of sincere, uncomplicated Americana can be intoxicating and hard to resist.
Throughout, Diane Nyad is defined almost exclusively by the adversity over which she triumphs.
Fincher applies his calculating approach in service of a straightforwardly entertaining film.
Priscilla’s expanded canvas often obscures its emotional subtleties.
The Human Surge 3 Review: A Globetrotting Look at the Joys and Tedium of the Digital Age
The film has an amorphous inconsistency that seems to be as much a feature as it is a bug.
Locarno Film Festival 2023: Antarctica Calling, Patagonia, Lousy Carter, & Critical Zone
This year’s festival was the site of more than a few alternately jarring and fruitful clashes.
The festival survived the trauma of lockdown to demonstrate impressive potential this year.
The film industry’s tribulations were the focus of some of the Korean competition’s best entries.
All three films are highlights of the festival’s the international competition
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Review: Murakami Adaptation Is an Unsatisfying Clash of Styles
Pierre Foldes’s film ultimately fails to create any clear identity of its own.
Even at its most confrontational, the film maintains a carefully controlled deadpan tone.
At this year’s BFMAF, the lines between documentary and fiction were blurred in productive and challenging ways.
The interplay between creativity, communication, and control is a key theme of the film.
Rye Lane Review: Raine Allen-Miller’s Love Letter to South London Is Written in Crayon
Rye Lane’s caricatured portrait of London fails to make its central romance truly resonate.
Many of the films at this year’s Doclisboa were meditations on colonial oppression, environmental degradation, and resurgent imperial warmongering.
George Clooney’s and Julia Roberts’s undimmed charisma brings enough grace notes to Ticket to Paradise that you could easily be taken in by its low-stakes frivolity.
The film mostly struggles to dramatize how fundamentally unknowable its main characters are.
The Wire creator’s We Own This City serves as another closely observed analysis of institutional rot.
Shining Girls ultimately doesn’t give us much sense of what’s at stake in its byzantine narrative.