The premise should be prime fodder for director Wim Wenders’s brand of poetic regret.
As ever, writer-director Paolo Sorrentino ironically cuts the legs out from under his protagonists’ wistfulness with grotesquerie.
Abel Ferrara takes his gonzo style to its most abstract dimensions and produces one of his most essential, and least heralded, films.
One of the film’s greatest traits is its refusal to say 10 words when two will do, or to say one word when silence says it all.
Criterion rallies to put out one of its all-time best packages in its masterful restoration of Ray’s most famous films.
For a film about the violent overthrow of the status quo, Mockingjay – Part 2 is terminally conventional.
F.W. Murnau’s epic rates as one of the master’s finest works, and Kino’s Blu-ray highlights the intricate precision behind its huge scale.
This neglected gem adds yet another layer to noir’s longstanding preoccupations with black and white.
There’s much to admire here, from its symbolically sickly aesthetic to its clearly shot action sequences.
Sion Sono imagines gangs not as rebels without a cause, but a lost generation of displaced, poisoned youths.
The film is Guillermo del Toro’s fussiest, most compartmentalized construction, filled with the most powerful sense of repression and delusion.
Rebecca Miller is at her best when she finds the shared wavelengths of her lead cast’s divergent styles.
It’s the fleshed-out first segment that best presents characters with actual lives, as compared to the thinly veiled talking points of the film’s second half.
It spotlights the act of filmmaking as an act of resistance as well as a possible source of propaganda and manipulation.
Philippe Garrel’s film uses its characters’ stodgy, formal language to betray their self-consciousness.
Those expecting it to be one of To’s manic comedies will instead be met with arguably his most dour drama.
If Ben Rivers brutalizes its artist’s ego, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s film takes a more sardonic look at vanity.
At times, The Witch’s minimalist chill becomes too diffuse for its own good.
The only way that this film could be any more racist is if the Dwyer family holed up with Lillian Gish and waited for the Klan to save them.
One of the most exciting new shows on television, and HBO’s Blu-ray captures its exceptional visual and audio design with near-perfection.