Throughout, the film balances a dynamic aesthetic energy with a generosity of spirit.
The Tomorrow War is little more than a clunky, Nolan-esque exercise in instruction-manual cinema.
The film doesn’t leave us with a complex sense of Hayden Pedigo as a person and political candidate trying to take on an unjust system.
The film tends toward the dramatically monotonous, but its unwavering sense of purpose ensures that it’s also compellingly human.
After a while, the film’s elaborate, often breathtaking special effects come to feel like it’s only source of complexity.
Asia is Ruthy Pribar’s feature-length directorial debut, but it evinces an old hand’s confidence.
The film’s cramped compositions hauntingly underline the claustrophobic nature of its protagonist’s life.
Much of the film’s power comes from a series of deft, often wry juxtapositions between video and audio.
The film fails to effectively seize on how its main character’s life and work experiences have affected her as a person and artist.
Ava isn’t only banal, but also, in its half-hearted stabs at novel ideas, seemingly content with its banality.
The Binge sees us all as horny nitwit fratboys at heart who need an excuse to cut loose.
The film mostly works to confirm that its main characters’ love for one another is straightforward and without complexities.
Its emphasis on the achievement of the individual is practically antithetical to the conclusion drawn by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The film refuses to shy away from the unvarnished honesty of the Blind Melon frontman during his brief moment of fame.
Its sensitivity to how food can have an immense emotional impact is consistently and unobtrusively profound.
It isn’t long into the film when the hagiographic soundbites from famous interviewees become the dominant mode.
Director Alex Holmes ultimately takes a frustratingly simplistic approach to his thematically rich material.
Jack Hazan’s portrait of David Hockney stands between documentary and fictional film, reality and fantasy.
It’s an unfussy, intimate chamber drama that’s fearless in confronting the attitudes of its exalted subject.
The documentary is incessant about reminding us of the late Merce Cunningham’s achievements.