A fascinating film but Manoel de Oliveira fans may be the only ones up to its challenge.
I refuse to give the man the benefit of the doubt.
Fans of the film won’t want to miss the opportunity to listen to the real-life subject of the film on the disc’s commentary track.
Note to E. Elias Merhige: Dude, lighten up!
Starlit High Noon is a pensive study of infatuation.
Phil Morrison’s Junebug is the older, wiser sibling of home-for-the-holidays family melodramas like Pieces of April.
Call the film Anatomy of Jenny Craig.
Commerce comes to a Chinese countryside in the form of two exotic animals given to an impoverished farmer and his wife.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s In a Year of 13 Moons is the obvious influence for director Oskar Roehler’s mosaic of miserabilism.
Fret not if you couldn’t get to Park City this year, the New Directors/New Films series brings Park City to you!
em>South of the Clouds seems to exist only to satisfy its maker.
Abdellatif Kechiche’s film scarcely starves for intensity.
The film isn’t so much about Johnston’s madness as it is about the way the people in his life have learned to deal with it.
Clorox, Ammonia and Coffee! is considerably less miserable than Free Radicals, but it’s also more schematic.
Kudos to Ratner for at least acknowledging that the film’s gay jokes are cheap-doesn’t make him any less of a prick, but still.
Note to Marc Forster: It’s sheep, not sheeps!
Comic Book Guys can now rejoice: Now you can cream your pants in the privacy of your own home. I mean, your mom’s house.
The film radically and experimentally dramatizes the horror of the refugee experience and the strain it has on the human spirit.
In spite of its formalist rigor and attention to the relationship between abuser and abused, the film talks down to its audience.
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Young Rebels is a unique documentary experience, an intimate look at the roots of hip-hop in Cuba.