Eat Pray Love’s viewpoint is a gauzy and narrow one, removing its rose-colored glasses only to better gaze at its own navel.
Rarely have source material, director, and leading actress been more in alignment than in Orlando.
In a time of partisan sniping, the notion of the “apolitical” war documentary has its obvious appeals.
A remarkable image and sound presentation dignifies this DVD release of Hallström’s latest cheesefest.
Breathless feels very rooted in a specific time and place within the career of its creator.
The film is an uninspired self-esteem pep-talk that seems to be yearning for viewer affection despite its all-around mediocrity.
The problem with Be Good is one that it shares with other, similarly ambiguous character studies about people with hidden pasts.
The film’s value beyond its exquisite use of setting to craft mood is a dicey question.
It’s clear from her work in Applause that Paprika Steen has a face for the camera.
Accident eventually settles into more familiar narrative rhythms, owing quite a bit in tone and message to The Conversation.
As midwinter sudsers go, you could do a lot worse than Dear John.
The film feels liveliest when considering what happens when scientific research collides with the individual egos and desires of those producing it.
If the film’s half-baked salaciousness feels merely risible, its slapdash screenplay and cheapo look make it something that its generic forbearers rarely were: boring.
Before Tomorrow often attains the elemental power of fable.
At a particularly rundown corner of Almodóvar Boulevard and Tarantino Lane, you’ll find Women in Trouble.
Endgame is one of those films whose heart-in-the-right-place earnestness is so palpable that you kind of feel bad knocking it.
It’s less a criticism than a statement of fact that Good Hair comes from a decidedly male perspective.
More Than a Game tells one of those “you can’t make this stuff up” true stories for which documentarians live.
Like its gifted if excitable protagonists, Fame would have done well to stay in the classroom a bit more.
The film possesses a restless vitality, with hard cuts juxtaposing abject brutality with pastoral tranquility and romantic longing.