Both Joan Plowright and Rupert Friend are so committed to their roles that their friendship in the film almost seems credible.
Throughout, Carlos Reygadas likens our disgust for his nonchalant sex scenes as a form of political reticence.
Played for laughs, the extras collected on this unrated DVD of The Dukes of Hazzard will hardly summon a chuckle.
Scarcely earth-shattering, Sky High is still a better kiddie flick than Chicken Little.
Try the films of Radley Metzger instead.
Jean-Luc Godard was right when he said Roger Vadim was “with it.”
In reconnecting us with the past, McElwee asks us to reconnect with our human spirit.
Loyal as Ang Lee’s film may be to the Annie Proulx short story, it doesn’t quite share its grit.
The Reception welcomes us with a punch in the gut.
Save for the visible grain and unfortunate fluctuations in contrast, this is a sharp and clean transfer.
The audio presentation is solid, especially the post-production sound of Morgan Freeman’s narration and Alex Wurman’s score.
Liman’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith is Scenes from a Marriage for Generation Y.
What is it about Bresson’s films that inspire such personal reactions and frank admissions from their admirers?
This is a dry hump compared to the wet dream of Almodóvar’s Law of Desire.
The Young One connects to us on a blood level but the incision it makes to reach us there is made with flabbergasting sensitivity.
Once you realize F is for fake, the film itself reveals its own theoretical phoniness.
Call it Through a Glass Fatuously.
Here are some more adjectives you can add to the disc’s cover art: beautiful, elegiac, profound, and mythical.
With Mrs. Henderson Presents, Stephen Frears offers Judi Dench a Being Julia to call her own.
Nothing special, unless you want to take that expensive Screenplay 101 class from home.