Rather than embedding herself in Iraq, documentarian Deborah Scranton supplied three National Guard members with DV cameras.
Well, what did your parents tell you about talking to strangers?
To make a case against psychoanalytic self-help, one need look no further than RevoLOUtion.
Goal! The Dream Begins runs through sports movie clichés with all the subtlety, style, and originality of a kick to the shins.
Cédric Klapisch’s shallow stylistic ticks preclude identifiable emotional or behavioral reality.
Andrucha Waddington is attuned to both the flowing passage of time and the charged silence between people.
The film is less insanely intricate than Brian De Palma’s 1996 original and far less flamboyantly queer than John Woo’s 2001 sequel.
Alison Murray’s feature debut is an anti-cult cautionary tale.
An American Haunting takes the spurious “based on real events” claim to new extremes.
The film is little more than a CBS Sunday night movie that peddles inspirational fairy-tale schmaltz and middling humor by the coffin-full.
With Stick It, Jessica Bendinger looks to do for gymnastics what her Bring It On did for cheerleading.
Barry Sonnenfeld directs the film with the same amount of wit and style that characterized Wild Wild West.
The alternately enchanting, austere, and bewildering mise-en-scène is frequently one of denial and disruption.
It fluxes all right, from bad to the total pits.
It’s not surprising that deducing the mysterious bad guy’s identity is as easy as spotting which actor seems most bored.
Despite its often-overwhelming nonsensicality, there’s ultimately something irresistibly fiendish about Silent Hill.
The film, more than any in recent memory, taps into a palpable, overpowering sense of childhood wonder.
The Scary Movie franchise seems well on its way to becoming as indestructible as Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger.
The finale reveals the detrimentally hamfisted influence of the Sundance Institute on an otherwise entrancingly mournful film.
The Wild is too slipshod to even decide on the level of its animals’ anthropomorphism.