The audience will very much slog through the laborious twists of Tony Gilroy’s ultimately routine, money-stakes-only espionage caper.
Our interview with James Gray touches on the complexities of Two Lovers and the nature of criticism.
Even completists of director Tom Tykwer will write this shoddy film off like so much bad debt.
The film can’t help but approximate its unsatisfying elevation of chit-chat into a primary mode of rom-com narrative communication.
Historical events referenced in the first two films are brought to life in this passionless, idea-deprived prequel.
While She Was Out is an empty husk of a survival thriller.
What makes the whole thing gel successfully is a canny creative team.
She spoke with Slant about Wendy and Lucy and its political bearings, and what success means for an ultra low-budget filmmaker.