It lacks the comic mastery of Kingpin and Shallow Hal’s cutting insights about body image, but it’s still a big-hearted charmer.
True crime, secret lesbians, Floridian trailer trash, and ’80s pop music—these lurid ingredients come together in Monster.
Oh, the irony. In support of the National Drug Control Policy’s anti-marijuana advertisement included here, feel free to light up.
The Statement never delves too deeply into the pitch-black heart of its premise.
This ambitious seafaring epic almost holds its rickety hull together thanks to Russell Crowe’s intense, broad-shouldered star power.
In the Cut fails to communicate the same complexities about men and women that Jane Campion has more deeply explored in her earlier films.
Sylvia is a Lifetime bio-pic set in a BBC melodrama’s charcoal gray gloom and squalor.
The Singing Detective is tedious to sit through mostly because its every moment feels so painfully misguided.
Intolerable Cruelty ultimately doesn’t spend enough time in the courtroom and in the boudoir.
The austere minimalism of Scott’s Alien has kept it from becoming dated.
A solid audio transfer and a nifty collection of supplemental materials highlight this DVD edition of Boyle’s solid genre spooker.
Johnny Depp captures the feeling of Robert Rodriguez’s film: blinded and shooting randomly in all directions.
For all the misappropriated hatred spewed about the film back in 1988, it follows the Gospels with diligence and faith.
Funny stuff. That is, if you like the dry, incessant sound of crickets on summer evenings.
Austrian provocateur Ulrich Seidl gives the suburbs of his native Vienna a merciless swat in Dog Days.
A sign of the times: S.W.A.T. opens with an aerial shot of the Hollywood sign before quickly descending into white-noise chaos.
Alan Rudolph treats everyday suburban anxieties with great empathy, not cynicism.
There’s no investment. In anything. Welcome to the desert of the reel.
Horror fans take note: Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later is the real deal.
How much do we need to know about the lives and struggles of our pop-culture heroes in order to appreciate them?