John Sayles pointedly evokes America’s military intervention as an extension of the nation’s treatment of its own indigenous people.
As far as frightful childhood figures went, to me the Boogeyman had nothing on Jason Voorhees.
Have some of what Groucho’s having and discover Preminger’s lovably batshit-crazy paean to changing times.
See Melville charge a trip to the confessional booth with as much tension as an underworld confrontation.
No 1980s flick is really complete without a music montage, and The Manhattan Project boasts one of the most bizarre of them all.
The drinks that go down amiably in Hahaha get caught in people’s throats in On Tour.
Aïnouz and Gomes blend documentary with fiction to forge a tactile, strikingly woozy first-person perspective.
He’s long displayed a keen interest in young characters whose restless sexuality is but one element in the volatile cultural landscapes they find themselves in.
Violence was always an integral part of Fritz Lang’s art, yet few other filmmakers were as scrupulous about what should be shown and what shouldn’t on the screen.
Strange is the new normal in Gregg Araki’s splashy and squishy Kaboom.
The death of Claude Chabrol inevitably saddles Inspector Bellamy, the prolific French New Waver’s final feature.
Operatic and droll, the film wears its period compositions and magisterial length lightly.
Tamara Drewe showcases Stephen Frears as the off-key confectioner of Mrs. Henderson Presents.
The older Woody Allen gets, the more the nebbish-jester mask dissolves to reveal the pinched sneerer underneath.
The best special effect in Danny Boyle’s hectic, ultimately tension-dispersing latest is James Franco’s performance.
Vincent Gallo’s high-pitched whine is back in full force for his latest effort to seize the title of cinema’s great, obnoxious total filmmaker from Jerry Lewis.
François Ozon’s latest is more like Pastiche.
Miral is a middlebrow stew of distracting star cameos, stilted speechifying, and references to The Battle of Algiers.
Takashi Miike embraces his inner classicist with 13 Assassins, a sturdy yet surprisingly conventional samurai saga.