Luis Buñuel dares his audience to question everything they’ve come to know about morality, savagery, and everything in between.
The film at least acknowledges that the monster pics from the post-Cold War era were less urgent than their sci-fi counterparts.
Rob Minkoff creates an unmistakably adorable, storybook tableau from his colorful use mise-en-scène and symmetrical compositions.
The film’s scares are genuinely terrifying and deliriously unironic.
For fans of John Edward and anyone wanting to give a burning flame an extra kick.
Don’t bother with this one unless you haven’t seen the same film repackaged as Bad Company and The Sum of all Fears.
Though you may not want to tell anyone you own this disc, it’s a keeper.
Its otherwise potent historical discourse is rendered mute by the slightness of LaBute’s romantic and theoretical breath.
Sam Mendes’s latest American yarn, Road to Perdition, is as well-told and every bit as complacent as his American Beauty.
At first glance, the evidence tying Hitchcock to Audiard’s Read My Lips seems purely circumstantial.
Though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors, Benoit Jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set.
Talk to Her still finds Pedro Almodóvar pushing a uniquely soulful blend of comedy and drama.
The film plays out more like a Scooby-Doo reunion episode than Germany’s answer to Ocean’s 11.
Having escorted her fair share of men through the Gay Underground Railroad, she’s a trailblazer who always comes out on top.
What Is Cletis Tout? is not some cheap Pulp Fiction knock-off, just fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references.
Now that ImClone has brought Martha Stewart back to planet Earth, her superhuman tricks don’t feel quite so superhuman anymore.
Mr. Deeds is just Mr. Deeds Goes to Town updated for the Big Daddy crowd.
For that special Christian in your life who’s still trapped in the 1950s.
Spielberg fashions drug addiction as a metaphor for humanity’s paradoxical relationship to the technology of the future.
Ripe for repeated viewings, this one is a definite keeper for the young ones.