In its first frame, Romancing the Stone announces that it is a “Michael Douglas Production.” That’s for sure.
His name is Jack T. Colton. What’s the “T” stand for? “Trustworthy”
Spike Lee’s political statement is one of humanism, and the result is his most potent work in years.
Through Blow Out isn’t known as one of De Palma’s horror movies, of all his films, it’s the one that feels most like a nightmare.
Steal from the rich, steal from the poor.
Matthew Porterfield finds the rhythms of everyday life well enough, but he rarely grasps the key moments that make them art.
He may be a quick wit, but have Will Rogers’s cheeks been colorized in cotton-candy pink like Shirley Temple’s? I think not.
It sheds light on a fascinating art world and justice system constantly in search of an offender.
Fox provides fine remasterings of Temple’s original black-and-white pictures.
It’s hard to ask for much from this movie, what with it being digitally drawn in basic, web-friendly cartoon animation.
Queer Duck: The Movie has the homespun charm of an early season of The Simpsons.
Tourgasm reeks of a money-grubbing network handing over a camera crew to Cook and saying “have fun.”
The Color of Olives is another wartime political documentary that explores its subject from the gut, rather than the heart or the mind.
The lines may not be as frequently “cutting” as before, but the Pet Shop Boys’s empathy for human suffering was never so concise.
Fundamental may be the Pet Shop Boys’s most promising bid for commercial viability in years.
With Delicatessen, Jeunet and Caro shoot for a Terry Gilliam-esque grotesque beauty and only hit grime.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro stuff themselves with all their favorite obsessions and the result is both unfunny and very unappetizing.
Just My Luck’s throwback quickly goes from chintzy to rotten.
Everyone in this delusional fantasy is a tool for Nnegest Likke to make her grandstanding social message.
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector is as rough-hewn and out of place as its titular main character.