To get to the primal thrill of racing, Iwaisawa uses just about every technique at his disposal.
Criterion has assembled an impressive set of bonus features for this release.
The film plays a long game with audiences that frustrates far more than it illuminates.
Ethan Hawke brings a rascally energy to the familiar part of a run-of-the-mill divorced loser.
Across the series, characters, incidents, and backstories pile up in dizzyingly rapid succession.
Pulled awkwardly in so many directions, this Toxic Avenger all but comes apart at the seams.
With the R-rated canine comedy Fixed, Genndy Tartakovsky is off the leash.
Julian Glander’s film is driven less by plot than by the memorable atmosphere it summons.
What stumbles there are do little to loosen the game’s sturdy grasp of genre.
The real masterstroke of Kaizen is how seamlessly it eases you into its complexities.
The Alters is missing the skin-of-your-teeth hardship that defines a great survival game.
For all its storytelling sins, the series skirts the most damning one of them all: It’s not boring.
The game lavishes idiosyncratic detail on its ground-level view of the world.
The rogue security cyborg at the show’s center is less a vengeful killer than a quiet quitter.
In its second season, the series leans into sillier characters and more heightened predicaments.
Despelote is transportive in its vision of a messy childhood.
It’s disappointing how “Tape 2” casts the construction of the first installment in a different light.
Commandos: Origins hasn’t been polished to a mirror shine.
There’s scant complexity to the practice of running the central mascot agency.
Ash is a solid delivery mechanism for genre thrills.