Doing Time, Doing Vipassana strains to summon a sense of spiritual gravitas.
Secuestro Express allows first-time director Jonathan Jakubowicz to exploit and sell out his Venezuelan culture.
In this era of horror films soullessly carted out of Hollywood, Wolf Creek immediately stands apart from the pack.
The film suggests a 90-minute version of Collective Soul’s “The World I Know” as helmed by Scott Stapp.
Constant Gardener is rather turgid and misguided for something that’s supposed to inspire self-righteous anger.
Not a lot of supplemental materials here, but not unlike the film, they don’t mess around.
The image is gorgeous, the sound is astonishing, and the supplemental materials are solid.
This is a banal disquisition of polite society that could have been orchestrated by Jackie Collins.
Morgan Spurlock extends Super Size Me’s recipe for success to his 60-minute reality TV program 30 Days.
Arie Posin’s feature debut vies, and fails, for the wide-open humanism of an Altmanesque tapestry.
Choose the lesser of two evils: Make Tom Cruise proud and medicate yourself with Prozac Nation and not the actual pill.
A more apt title for the film might have been The Liberation.
It ain’t pretty but you have a choisa: See Modigliani or rent Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio instead.
Sans White House PR spin, Gunner Palace is a much-needed look at the war in Iraq from the perspective of our troops.
Twenty bucks says that the DVD’s interactive menus were designed by Mariah Carey.
It certainly would have been nice if Steve at least threw a piece of steak at Sky in order to liven things up a bit.
Johnny To sees the relationship between criminal life, law enforcement, and technology as an inextricably bound circus act.
A given for Svankmajer completists and a great place to begin for those unfamiliar with the director’s work.
It’s to the film’s credit that it’s able to say so much with very little words and even less righteousness.
An underwhelming DVD package but Bright Leaves remains one of the most rewarding documentary experiences of the last five years.