The Forgiveness of Blood is essentially a prison film where the bars are age-old customs and contradictory traditions.
Apolitical in nature, the documentary is about the necessity of family, not war.
People matter in Fat Kid Rules the World, but genre not so much.
End of Watch is pure frat-boy fantasy, the video game to Southland’s great American novel.
The film is as effortlessly funny, breakneck, and smart as you may remember.
Carné’s sweeping, yearning, and ravishing film warns that romantic entanglement is nothing but a bog in which we all eventually get stuck.
The Walking Dead remains a frustrating mixed bag of intense highs and melodramatic lows.
From Liberty Valance to Daniel Plainview, Hollywood has always loved a good bastard.
A brilliantly macabre examination of evil seamlessly infecting those passionless souls indifferent to the threat of violent political transition.
Despite being a nasty and skillful action film, The Day goes off the rails in the final stretch.
The Dardennes’ story of survival and relentless persistence burns with the kind of immediacy that will make it forever relevant.
Like a specter, the Holocaust eerily looms over The Matchmaker, always felt but rarely mentioned.
The film mostly feels like a series of vignettes where the focus is a boy’s evolving sense of community, faith, and family.
It’s hard not to get a little nostalgic while trying to determine one’s favorite films of all time.
The film is potential fodder for MST3K fans jonesing for their latest kitsch fix.
In the end, it’s the strength of individualism and not He-Man’s Sword of Power that provides the fatal blow to Skeletor’s reign of darkness.
Russell’s kinetic head trip about the dangers of scientific self-indulgence comes to high definition in a forgettable package.
The failure to adapt the source play to a new medium in interesting ways is what’s most disappointing about Ponies.
Last Ride often connects location and character in fascinating ways.
Great protest art like Gillo Pontecorvo’s classic film will always be necessary.