There are several good reasons why Peter Jackson should not have remade the 1933 classic tale of beauty and the beast.
Criterion offers a superb DVD treatment that will be heaven for fans of this largely unseen Powell and Pressburger effort.
The Tales of Hoffmann looks magnificent, but it’s ultimately just eye candy for aesthetes.
Syriana may seem like a treatise on the corruption within the global oil industry, but it’s actually an overstuffed memo.
Would that the fantasy elements of the Potter series were as fantastic as the simple act of surviving young adulthood.
Thankfully, New Yorker Video in conjunction with Project X Distribution has found a way to make this and other Watkins films available.
This is an extreme, incendiary allegory stirring up deeper truths.
“Do you like me?” Sure, Johnny, we do sometimes, but we like it better when you don’t have to ask.
What is pleasant and slight in a short film becomes tedious and insipid when stretched to feature length.
Nothing special, unless you want to take that expensive Screenplay 101 class from home.
How unfortunate that this thriller at 40,000 feet comes so soon after the release of Red Eye.
Leave it to a Canadian filmmaker to attempt dissecting the shape of rage that lies underneath small town America.
The film doesn’t so much bring us closer to the serial murderer as it reminds us of our culpability as spectators.
Twenty years after its theatrical release, the John McNaughton film has lost none of its impact.
The interactive menus and nature of the supplemental materials are witty, cute, and oftentimes frustrating.
What Michael Almereyda sees in Eggleston’s work are the things that seem to drive Almereyda’s films: life as a continual paradox.
Even as the casting goes against convention, Don and Jarmusch never sufficiently look past the clichés of these roles .
David Mackenzie relishes dark tales of sexual obsession like a gleeful masturbator.
For a film shot in Ecuador, Crónicas feels curiously American in design.
The characters are treated with all the sympathy of amoebas seen through a microscope.