In the end, any and all potential B-movie fun is extinguished by the film’s depressingly listless anonymity.
The film fluctuates haphazardly between semi-serious reverence and tongue-in-cheek camp, with no shortage of opportunities for the inevitable Rifftrax accompaniment.
The doc is beholden to the same plethora of taboos, half-truths, and outright lies traded en masse by mainstream conservatism for the last seven years.
Cooper’s film now has the chance to find the audience it always deserved. Criterion does right by the little-seen masterpiece.
This 40th-anniversary package is reason enough to add Brooks’s classic to your collection.
It rarely feels like anything more than an effort to pander to the kind of audiences that enjoy Quentin Tarantino’s films for all the wrong reasons.
MST3K: Volume XXIX provides a healthy enough chunk of supplemental material to be of historic interest for the dedicated collector.
A generous package for a historic occasion, the capital-quality 25th Anniversary Edition is perfect for hardcore MSTies and newcomers alike.
Like a Brazilian wax for the brain, Zack Snyder’s divisive reboot of the Superman franchise will continue to obliterate your senses in this impressive combo package.
Kino’s barebones release of this brutal noir will leave fans high and dry in the extras department.
This window into the world of youthful competition almost entirely disposes of social awareness in favor of routine drama.
The film’s tonal inconsistencies speak less to the struggles of its titular subject than to its own grasp-exceeding ambitions.
By de-emphasizing politics in favor of humanitarianism, Danielle Gardner’s work also suggests how Americans might yet unify even as the world around them threatens to tear itself apart.
The lousy feature-length adaptation of a great TV series about terrible movies gets a pretty-good home-video package.
It compensates for its narrative shortcomings with an abundance of workmanlike artistry.
The documentary’s refusal to challenge the comfort zones of its target audience is apparent throughout.
Throughout the film, writer-director Jash Hyde avoids Paul Haggis’s patronizing white liberal attitude toward class warfare.
This 27th DVD set devoted to the long-running series is a net cast widely across the qualitative layers of this most xenomorphic example of cult television.
A powerful chapter in human history is made melodramatic and dull through Matej Minac’s indulgence of hokey reenactments and sound-augmented archival footage.
The season provides a decent fix for your Aaron Sorkin cravings and (hopefully) signals greater things yet to come.