At once snotty and quirky, the winning Persepolis is what french fries are to the Republicans in congress.
The features on this two-disc edition raises the question: Does Waters have stocks in Morton and Campbell’s?
Scott Prendergast’s understanding of the body as image and form of branding enriches Kabluey with a striking ambiguity.
Hip-hop and basketball have never been so uninspiringly brought together as they are in Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot.
As documentary, the film reveres the horrors of the Israeli bombing, but as fiction, it actually works to trivialize it.
Given that this new DVD is an almost exact facsimile of the 2003 disc, they should have just called it the “I Wanna Be Like You” Edition.
Even the cops who arrested Philippe Petit were impressed by the young Frenchman’s daring.
This year’s festival is, in part, a celebration of Ariel Dorfman’s lifework and commitment to understanding the psychology of the prisoner of war.
Tamar Yarom’s documentary packs an emotional whallop.
Kit Kittredge is remarkable for the social consciousness its young characters evince.
Haneke’s admonishments are disturbing only in the sense that they’re never self-critical.
Looks and sounds better than any bootleg video we’ve ever gotten our hands on.
Sadly, the singer doesn’t have much of a live presence, at least in the sense that you frequently forget she’s even on stage.
Brick Lane doesn’t so much suggest a melodrama of the heart and spirit as it does an explosion at a fabric store.
A sweet tale of a man learning to care about others, The Grocer’s Son is still simpleminded on a very fundamental level.
Can anyone tell me what the Czech word for magnolia is?
The way Michael Patrick King tells it, you wouldn’t think much has changed since the Civil War-era plantation.
In Kicking It, the impoverished conditions of the film’s subjects matter significantly less than the rush of competition.
Charlie Wilson’s War at least understood itself as a caricature, whereas Recount behaves as if it were the real deal.
Harlan Ellison is a mook, but he won’t begrudge you for calling him that.