The film is an anguished update of, and response to, Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl.
This set attests to the raw power and sociopolitical specificity of McQueen’s anthology series.
The film asks us to eat the rich, but Criterion’s release is at best a delicious light snack.
John Frankenheimer’s film is a propulsive examination of international terrorism.
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Cronenberg is so fixated on freaking us out that he can sometimes neglect to do much else.
A Man Called Otto Review: Marc Foster’s Swedish Movie Remake Is a Sentimental Sop to Emotion
The film is so toothless that its protagonist is ultimately about as forbidding as a warm hug.
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The Looney Tunes-esque joy with which the film delivers its parodies is infectious.
Maria Schrader’s film is crushed under the weight of its own self-importance.
Argentina, 1985 Review: A Light-on-Its-Feet Dramatization of the Trial of the Juntas
Justice, Argentina, 1985 suggests, isn’t a destination but a constant process.
For a while, the film feels more like a supervillain origin story than a traditional slasher.
Scarlet Review: Pietro Marcello’s Magical Realism Is a Vague Celebration of the Past
The film drifts so far into weightless fantasy that it practically dissipates before one’s eyes.
A Couple ultimately constitutes not so much a footnote to Wiseman’s storied career as a beguiling little doodle in its margins.
The festival provides a matchless opportunity to take the pulse of Poland’s present-day culture.
Writer-director Ruben Östlund’s pessimism ultimately leads the film toward a self-negating dead end.
This boldly restive biopic imagines Sissi as a deeply restless soul chafing against the social limitations of her day.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s film is one of the supreme cinematic examinations of the body’s magnificent malleability.
The Black Phone suffers from a repetitive structure, over-stuffed mythology, and under-explored ideas.
The film is a slick, soulless spectacle whose jokey banter and space-opera action drowns out the story’s emotional beats.
Hustle doesn’t seem to know how its characters fit into the complicated web of sports, media, and finance that defines the NBA.
Throughout, the quick-hit jokes from the show’s rich cast of oddballs serves to suggest a vibrant world outside of the Belchers.