The film suggests Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood but without the gallows humor or eye for regional detail.
Since there’s no doubt that a beefier DVD package of The Blind Side is on the way, it’s easy to write off this barebones release as a shameless cash-in.
Minor Sheridan, perhaps, but freakishly well-acted by Toby Maguire and young actresses Bailee Madison and Taylor Geare.
Eric Mendelsohn’s first film since 1999’s Judy Berlin suggests Little Children as helmed by a nature documentarian.
You watch this slick, headache-inducing piece of trash in constant awe of how much lower it could possibly go.
Atrocious, yes, but you can’t say the pandering New Moon doesn’t understand the hormonal impulses of its target audience.
Is it success or failure that Beautiful Darling is unable to dispel the cloud that still hangs over Candy?
With I Killed My Mother, writer-director Xavier Dolan makes a grandiose show of his pain and narcissism.
The film is is a keen portrayal of a girl caught uncomfortably in the crawlspace between girlhood and womanhood.
Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s film amounts to shooting fish in a barrel.
Amer moves relentlessly and dissonantly, and practically sans dialogue.
One of Almodóvar’s weakest films is worth checking out on DVD for Carmen Machi’s performance in the short film The Cannibalistic Councillor.
The film derives its beauty from its casually obsessed dwelling on the minutia of dreaming when you’re down and out.
These are the winners at the 82nd Academy Awards.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2010 Academy Awards.
We can look at a win for Bullock, like one for Streep, for what it is: a gesture of People’s Choice-ism.
Visually, morally, Precious is whack, but praise Mo’Nique’s performance (“Fuck a stipend!”) and Gabourey Sidibe’s superior one.
The documentary short category this year feels especially wracked with tragedy.
The rule of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland, like that of dreams, is that there are no rules.
We’re down to the wire, folks, and we’ve been saving some of the more contentious races for last.