Hadewijch ultimately seems just as calculated and mechanical a pose as Bruno Dumont’s previous efforts.
The Red Riding Trilogy proves that HBO has no monopoly on quality small-screen drama.
Lebanon may as well have been titled What It’s Like Inside a Wartime Tank.
The film’s bibilical allusions and interest in issues of morality and madness are too facile to prop up a lack of second-half scares.
It paints a haunting trifurcated portrait of people set adrift by forced large-scale economic and cultural transformations.
The employment of façades is a key motif in Broken Embraces, and an unintentionally apt one at that.
The drab stateliness of Coco Before Chanel is in keeping with the un-ornate threads popularized by its subject.
The film distills to its essence the worst tendencies of The Hangover‘s bachelor party craziness.
Man, animal, and earth, all shadowed by the big sky’s enormous clouds, are here intertwined in a cyclic ritual.
Treeless Mountain is notable for its ambiguities and performances of its two young leads.
Fake or real, Full Battle Rattle just doesn’t cut it.
The film’s “It’s a small world” plotting is sunk by Cédric Klapisch’s bland artistry and dull insights into his milieu.
As in publishing, the alarmist polemic has become its own documentary subgenre, and Fuel is merely its latest entrant.
The film only thaws itself out from formulaic rigor mortis via repeated sights of cords, sutured wounds, and frostbitten fingers being severed.
Not Forgotten is a feature-length anti-tourism campaign for Mexico.
For his remake of Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Peter Hyams ratchets up the sleek car-commercial flashiness.
This is a laborious bit of sci-fi grimness that dully updates The Running Man for the 21st century.
The only laughs elicited by All About Steve are those of incredulity at its blanket ineptitude.
Treading well-worn ground to diminishingly creepy returns is a bone-deep problem for Zombie’s latest.
The documentary sidesteps canny directorial gestures in favor of straightforward verité footage of the life aquatic.