Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss doesn’t dig quite deep enough into a critical appraisal of its subject’s work.
Throughout, Bruce Willis sleepwalks through shootouts and patiently sits in the frame’s corner while others attempt funniness.
The disappointment educed by Like You Know It All is of a qualified sort.
It’s only natural that Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet is situated primarily within a roughneck French prison.
The film is a compilation of deadpan vignettes about Romanian life under Ceausescu’s authoritarian ’80s rule.
Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Air Doll cares not for gritty reality but merely the stuff of fairy-tale movies.
The film succeeds only at suggesting the incompatibility of returning-home dramedy and surrealistic flights of fancy.
the bodies corporeal and politic are one and the same in Morphia.
Harry Potter knockoffs don’t come more transparent and slapdash than Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
Erik Gandini’s documentary is a stylized, scattershot inquiry into Italy’s TV-dominated culture.
A film like this that wears its homages proudly—and wears them this well—is something to be celebrated.
It exhibits a visceral lucidity born from longer takes and spatially coherent editing that allow one to logically follow the frenetic fisticuffs.
When in Rome’s finest moment winds up involving the frame going intentionally black.
44 Inch Chest parades profanity, jumbled chronology, and limp psychodrama.
The film is a tone-deaf odyssey of personal discovery striving to echo Dante’s Inferno.
Aside from the sight of a monstrous granny climbing a ceiling on all fours, there’s little genre juice to these lackluster proceedings.
Paul Bettany’s performance deserves a better film than this one.
Resurrection is The Book of Eli’s game, from its tale of a post-apocalyptic society’s reformation, to its hero emerging from the ashes of a nuclear holocaust.
The film saddles Jackie Chan with sloppy combat sequences and domestic pratfall hijinks that boast all the spark of a black hole.
Wonderful World is a checklist-indie that offers up clichés with gusto equal to that of its earnestness.