Even when it edges toward sentimentality, Broker is redeemed by Kore-eda Hirokazu’s customarily bracing humanism.
Bros is ultimately let down by its pat perspectives on modern romance and social justice.
For better and worse, writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Women Talking is most noteworthy for its imagery.
Throughout, Brett Morgen is less interested in factual biography than in eliciting a sense of the man as an artist and personality.
Graduation retains 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’s thrilling pulse of morality itself racing to beat the clock.
The film adopts a half-hearted variation on A Beautiful Mind’s gimmicky approach to grappling with a man’s mental illness.
The film’s approach to exploring the Sonoran Desert and topic of immigration often veers toward the avant-garde.
It’s most crucial shortcoming is its failure to illuminate both the inner life of its subject and his artistic genius.
By privileging the white characters in its narrative, Victoria & Abdul exposes itself as insidiously hypocritical.
Brad’s Status resonates because Mike White clearly sees Brad’s faults but refuses to judge him for them.
It suggests a human-interest story where all the humanity has been gutted in favor of deadening narrative efficiency.
Rahul Jain’s film conveys with revelatory force the mechanization of people in an industrialized milieu.
Throughout the film, one wishes for a bit more depth regarding Jessica’s professional struggles.
What makes it play as more than just another activist doc is its focus on the power of images as a way to inspire change.
To some degree, Rough Night’s attention to character detail compensates for its weaknesses as a comedy.
The filmmakers lay the groundwork for us to take the story as speculative fantasy, albeit with a real-life outcome.
Everyone here, from fellow marines to Iraqis, is merely a supporting player in Megan Leavey’s emotional journey.
One has to wade through a lot of eye-rolling comic marginalia to get to the film’s pained beating heart.
Rama Burshtein allows us to form our own impressions based on what she presents to us of the Orthodox faith.
Laura Poitras doesn’t indulge in score-settling cheap shots, but seriously grapples with her contradictory subject.