This Eclipse set is like a triumphant middle finger: It’s up to you to take offense or pleasure yourself with it.
The tortuous legacy of Jack Kerouac continues to trip up even the hippest and least glib of Neo-Beats.
Araya is an artifactual account of human sweat that aims for pithy sympathy but strikes a far more bewitching bull’s eye.
If this is the best that out-of-order indie romances can get, why bother with them?
The sole saving grace of the film is St. Trinian’s student body.
During what generation did we decide that genocide just isn’t genocide without ominous strings and slow cross fades?
The film only underscores the mind-bogglingly hazardous crapshoot we take when entrusting our children to local classrooms anywhere in the U.S.
Writer-director Sally Potter seems curiously entertained by the most pedestrian performances.
Rashevski’s Tango is proof that mediocrity need not always be familiar.
Criterion’s second David Mamet release might be the best DVD package of the director’s work out there.
Nearly two decades after its release, the film’s crafty auto-didacticism and fevered indecisiveness are still attention-yanking.
Criterion’s DVD will not only satisfy but validate the cult surrounding one of the best and most relevant films of the 1990s.
Walden more closely resembles the written diaries of poets like Ginsberg and Kerouac than the canonized publication whose title Mekas cribbed.
The focus of Whit Stillman’s film is a psychologically authentic and painfully parasitic female relationship.
Walden set a precedent of postmodern fecundity in the form that has yet to be matched.
Luckily, Edel can direct an action scene, his spotty oeuvre notwithstanding.
Are we subjecting Hitler’s stereotype to the very mistreatment that contributed to the man’s infamous persona?
Imagine awakening from a series of grim nightmares to find your body covered in dried blood and ejaculate.
Osamu’s barbed cartoons meta-examine the same ground they break.
Bliss is an illustration of how inadequate fiction can be at tackling the über-sober topic of sexual victimization.