Mills’s films might be called fragmentary if not for their unifying spirit of psychological inquiry.
Stolen takes an interesting premise and turns it into an unforgivably predictable and flimsy genre hybrid.
Do not go gentle into that night, Don Visconti. Rage, rage against the dying of the “Lights, camera, action!” era.
Exquisitely rendered ennui. Criterion’s Blu-ray edition of Red Desert will take you there.
The film hauntingly conflates a woman’s spiritual awakening with the birth of cinema.
A modest package for a less than explosive French New Wave curio.
George A. Romero has disowned this film, but has he even seen it?
This high-falutin’ Nazi origin story is practically a masterpiece of subtlety in the finger-wagging blowhard Haneke’s canon.
Come for Reed’s name, stay for Rex Harrison’s performance and a few good cheap shots at the Nazis.
For young girls who don’t care for politics but love Twilight, Remember Me is a 9/11 story they can truly wrap their arms around.
A barebones DVD release of a predictably, spectacularly toothsome Breillat film.
Kiarostami’s rapturous chimera of a film finally gets its deserved due on DVD and Blu-ray.
The surgically enhanced Blu-ray edition of Showgirls is so good I can hardly thread a needle.
Dreck of the shrillest order, When in Romes drops on DVD with a transfer that looks as if it was literally pissed on.
There’s little doubt that Mystery Train is Jarmusch at his most emotionally forthright.
It’s a predictable condition, in this day and age, to see Urkel look-alikes on the LATFH.com page.
What starts off as noir feels like kids playing around.
A less than stellar presentation for a forgotten pioneer’s subversive gem.
An outstanding visual and auditory experience on Blu-ray easily makes up for the show’s shortcomings.
Oscilloscope Laboratories and Milliarium Zero give us a well-deserved and fetching-looking DVD of the Mariposa Film Group’s seminal gay doc.
A solid audio/video presentation on this From Paris with Love DVD almost makes Pierre Morel’s latest worth a rental.