A very charitable reading might say that Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story is designed to be self-negating.
You Were Never Really Here is possibly the most thrillingly unclassifiable film to play at this year’s Cannes.
Campillo’s film offers more than just the compelling social-realist ideas on its surface.
Good Time is at its strongest when it keys its intoxicating aesthetic to Robert Pattinson’s performance.
Claire’s Camera is one of Hong’s most formally intuitive and sharply written films in some time.
With Redoubtable, Hazanavicius co-opts Godard’s personal life for cheap prestige-picture sentiment.
The flexibility of French director Bruno Dumont’s spiritualism makes the film compelling.
Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In is an exquisite romantic comedy whose laughs are sad and whose sadness is funny.
Okja suggests that the sarcastic humor of South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho’s best films doesn’t translate well.
The meticulousness of Haynes’s execution overburdens his work’s conceptually exhilarating sense of wonder.
Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts is a lucid, free-form sprawl of stories nested within stories.
It often excels at elevating linear, historically conscious plotting with more abstract symbolism and ellipsis.
The film leaves the lasting impression of a story that takes place in its own elitist and hermetically sealed world.
J.D. Dillard’s film never shows much interest in exploring how blackness can inform its genre’s tropes.
It’s neatly organized around not only the changing of the seasons, but a Disney-branded circle-of-life ethos.
The flawless A/V transfer of Disney’s Blu-ray fully translates the film’s aesthetic beauty.
Lady Macbeth eventually turns into a meaningless, mean-spirited, and proudly irredeemable non-character study.
Yance Ford’s film builds into an emotionally, intellectually, and aesthetically complex work of essay and memoir.
Beach Rats is most compelling when it puts a self-aware focus on Harris Dickinson’s sculpted male figure.
This luminous and informative Blu-ray release should ensure at least some degree of collective reconsideration in the years to come.