Winnebago Man is about a lot of things, though mostly it’s about the frustrations of fame in our savvy, superficial age.
Like Sally Field, Despicable Me never risks enough to win our love, but it makes us really, really like it.
I Am Love is often torpid, sometimes laughable, and occasionally deeply moving.
Pirate Radio is based in reality the way a kite is based wherever its holder is standing at the moment.
Yes, the heart has its reasons.
Wow wow wow wow wow!
Ozu Yasujirô’s I Was Born, But… is naturalism at its best.
The two are polar opposites in a lot of ways.
Lightweight escapism is only fun if it’s light on its feet.
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s film is moody and brimming with significance and potential tragedy even when nothing much seems to be happening.
I left Grown Ups feeling as if Hollywood had given me a great big wedgie.
Just about everything I’ve written about so far in this Movie a Day series is pretty easy to find no matter where you live.
That train of Buster Keaton’s will always run ahead of the curve.
MSF doctors, it turns out, are just fallible, flawed human beings, doing what comes naturally to at least some members of this war-happy species.
The softer they come, the softer they fall.
The film may make you wonder how much Gus Van Sant was thinking about Vagabond when he made Last Days.
What Let It Rain illuminates best are the little pleasures and discomforts of middle-class life.
It delivers the message that was missing from the other film from this series that’s playing at the Human Rights Watch festival.
It delivers the message that was missing from the other film from this series that’s playing at the Human Rights Watch festival.
We all draw the line somewhere different for movie violence.