The film’s throwback nature is in sync with Ephraim Asili’s interest in wanting to keep the legacy of black activism alive.
Maria Schrader has a solution for the rom-com’s revitalization: embrace its constructs.
The film evinces Céline Sciamma’s profound knack for visual economy, communicating much with silent looks and structured absences.
Adolescence is a fertile metaphor for the strangeness and insecurity inherent in the transition from one world to another.
The film’s characters are suffused with a paradoxical kind of fear that can only happen in a dream.
Andrei Konchalovsky’s film is fascinated with the creation of great art in the midst of socio-political turmoil.
The film’s overtly non-specific title mostly just reflects the story’s lack of definable character.
Expending so much energy anticipating our avenues of interpretation, Malcolm & Marie leaves us with little to interpret.
Supernova is so obviously structured that it often seems to be imposing meaning on its characters.
This tongue-in-cheek gorefest gives the impression of an only semi-coherent joke on the audience.
Sachs undercuts the image of the past as simpler or more stable than the present.
The film never finds the spark that would imbue the love affair at its center with a sense of passion or urgency.
Anderson has simply combined the established iconography of the popular Capcom game franchise with prefab movie moments.
The film’s empowerment fantasy of a woman who steamrolls male egos is as stylish and fun as its portrait of gender relations is dire.
The film’s orderliness of plot somewhat undermines the sense that the family at its center is steeped in a truly messy situation.
The film translates the often difficult realities of a specific kind of marginalized love into a story with broad appeal.
The film is an uncanny reflection of the jingoism that Hollywood has been wrapping in glossy spectacle and exporting for decades.
I Am Greta isn’t so much an activist documentary as it is one about an activist.
Freaky doesn’t reach for any arch commentary beyond the suggestion that, hey, Freaky Friday the 13th is a pretty funny idea.
The film slides seamlessly between empathizing with its clueless bros and making them objects of unsparing derision.