The film works best during its pedal-to-the-metal car chases, which are virtuoso musical numbers of screeching tires and vehicles.
Even in this, his first feature, we see that Andrei Tarkovsky is compelled by memories of precious things.
The Criterion Collection deserves a gold medal for this release.
Despite all that talent on display, Sunshine is a philosophical blank slate.
An origin story that, sadly, has less in common with Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs than it does with Hannibal and Red Dragon.
The film is, as Queeg suggests, carried above the level of “standard” by its excellent performances.
28 Weeks Later rolls in like a poisonous dust cloud of nihilism.
The anamorphic widescreen presentation is first rate.
Bruno Dumont offers another spare existentialist portrait of modern man, once again insisting we are animals driven by primal hungers.
File that “movie that might’ve been” right alongside a Welles version of Heart of Darkness starring Boris Karloff as Kurtz.
Have fun with this hot-blooded Victorian soap opera.
The films of Alejandro Jodorowsky will blow your mind.
Altman shows sensitivity to his outsiders, without false sentiment or even commentary.
Phantasm remains a hallucinogenic horror classic, and this seems to be the definitive DVD treatment.
Phantasm’s big scares work because they seemingly continue to emerge from a writer’s feverish subconscious.
The world of Thieves Like Us is beautiful and strange, in all its stunning everydayness.
You want to talk about old school?
It may remind you of high school, and some of the things you tried to forget.
Slant‘s student governing body has elected to peer pressure you into selecting The Chocolate War.
Don Coscarelli outdoes the humor of John Hughes in what feels like a more honest version of the gleeful sadism in Home Alone.