If 300 was an abomination of history, Zach Synder’s latest is an abomination of the power of fairy tales.
One of the problems with documentaries like these is that it’s difficult to separate the material from the analysis.
Interpol may not be quite self-parody, but it’s also not the sort of thing that’s going to make the band hip again anytime soon.
The film’s plot is more or less Heat crossed with the corporate-fratboy hijinks of Entourage.
Essentially Trading Places by way of Next Friday, Lottery Ticket never rises above formula.
As far as portraits of aging has-beens go, nothing here is as well-honed as Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.
A handsome DVD presentation of a useless documentary experience—an assessment Anna Wintour would say points to my insecurity.
Kid Cudi doesn’t want you to take him seriously.
Extract occupies that awkward, slightly icky space in the Mike Judge oeuvre between funny and miserable.
The movie has gotten attention mostly for what it says about Anna Wintour, but the editrix comes out basically unscathed, no doubt by design.
Casi Divas is a send-up of telenovela culture with a serious case of social consciousness.
In her best work, even when she’s being precious, there’s an underlying force and anger that threatens to shatter everything into little pieces.
The sheer force of La Roux’s best songs steel themselves against pretty boys as well as petty criticisms.
Less a movie than a sociology thesis, Fragments follows a bunch of post-traumatic Los Angelenos after they’ve witnessed a shooting inside a diner.
Little Boots’s preemptive status as pop savant might actually turn out to be warranted.
Are You In? falls into 10 distinct parts, but they blend into each other seamlessly.
It might not be the future of music, but this is music you can swing your doorknockers to.
The problem with Eleven Minutes is that directors Michael Selditch and Robert Tate feel a little too sorry for their subject.
It’s no surprise that Madonna’s new show comes off not unlike an act of self-defense.
The album suggests a larger community working to redefine itself.