An incessant deluge of subplots drowns what could have been a sparse and beautiful ghost story.
Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here is rather minimalist, offering slivers of story and characterization.
The film exists in a kind of timeless realm, one where things change so often that it’s difficult to keep track.
This talented, hard-working thespian’s feeling for tumult is matched by his feeling for concision.
François Ozon has a palpable reverence for sleazy escapism, and that’s what makes Double Lover worthwhile.
King Hu approaches the film’s physics-defying skirmishes and supernatural elements with complete sincerity.
This fiery piece of pulp shrapnel receives a beautifully ugly transfer, along with a handful of negligible supplements.
The film is about the idea of Andy Kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive.
The fractured rhythm of 1945 and the desolate aesthetic are engrossing, but Ferenc Török’s film doesn’t linger.
Griffin Dunne’s film is an exercise in joviality, unflinching in its love for Joan Didion, and unwilling to be much more.
The characters’ emotional vacancy feels like another auteurist tic to which Lanthimos is dauntlessly committed.
Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel feels as artificial and unsatisfying as the cotton candy twirling in a vending cart.
Throughout Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s film, one may wonder if and when someone will wink at the camera.
Claire Denis finds the inexorable beauty (and sadness) in that most corrosive and fugacious of feelings.
Brawl in Cell Block 99’s economy of storytelling is as efficiently brutal as the eventual skull-crackings.
Before We Vanish’s beauty, its poignancy, comes from its relationship to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s other work.
Harry Dean Stanton was the great supporting actor of American cinema.
Jerusalem is a city of beige and tan, a vast barren sprawl that is, despite the brutal heat and muted colors, quite beautiful.
Adam West and Burt Ward are antipodal to every subsequent incarnation of Batman and Robin. The dynamic duo are blithe fuddy duddies turned billionaire scions in spandex.
You slowly sink into its bizarre charm, and by the time its sinister epiphanies begin to proliferate, you’re too deep to get out.