That the film shines scant illuminating light on Harrison’s story is all the more frustrating for its immense length.
As rigorous and stimulating as its thematic inquiries are, A Dangerous Method ultimately rests as much on its performances.
More innovation may have made this supposed trilogy-capper a more enthralling adventure.
harles Martin Smith’s Dolphin Tale is as squishy as the ocean is deep.
This is a loving, gracefully crafted retrospective that mostly, and shrewdly, eschews Behind the Music conventions.
Gus Van Sant’s cinema takes a detour into excruciating quirkland with Restless.
With only momentary cutscenes and in-game plot sequences affording a brief respite from combat chaos, this FPS piles on enough frantic firefight action to at times be downright draining.
Bludgeoning zombies is pleasurable but not quite as pleasurable as it should be in Dead Island.
With Miracle and now Warrior, Gavin O’Conner can lay claim to being the finest sports-drama director working today.
Luc Besson’s pulp-fiction assembly line churns out another adequate ass-kicker with Colombiana.
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is a tattered work of transparent outlandishness.
The film avoids grappling with its chosen political and personal themes via plotting that eschews ethical complexity.
Over-stylized and narratively undercooked, The Caller treats its Twilight Zone-style conceit for dim thrills.
Driven almost exclusively by the comments of Markopolos and his associates, Jeff Prosserman’s documentary becomes afflicted with tunnel vision.
The Hedgehog proves that Rushmore’s influence has now completely spread across the Atlantic.
A grotesque parable of Franco-era tyranny and opposition, the film proves a more demented, if also uneven, companion piece to Pan’s Labyrinth.
Asif Kapadia’s Senna would be merely another in a long line of tragic-athlete documentaries were it not for the director’s compelling approach.
The Change-Up begins at the absolute bottom so it can only ascend thereafter.
Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood carry out an assured assembly job with Magic Trip.
Heartache is the gasoline and betrayal is the spark that ignites it in Bellflower.