Mills’s films might be called fragmentary if not for their unifying spirit of psychological inquiry.
Stop-Loss is as much about the war in Iraq as it is about making movies-and like its kin, it isn’t any good.
Give me Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise instead.
Until 24 is back on the air, we won’t be able to wash the bad taste of Vantage Point from our mouths.
Filmmaker Carter Smith is going places, something which can’t be said about the characters in The Ruins.
While quite a few of the process and matte shots reveal the obvious seams, the print itself is clean and crystal clear.
A bathetic Afterschool Special, City of Men is a trendy illumination of social despair.
Like slogging through a pool of molasses, My Blueberry Nights may or may not wreck your love affair with Wong Kar-wai.
This is contemplative rape film that Irréversible wished it were.
Merlin’s got the potion that will put your sword into motion.
Until recently, Claude Sautet’s Classe Tous Risques was a long forgotten noir relic.
All in all, this is one of the essential DVD releases of the year.
At once snotty and quirky, the winning Persepolis is what french fries are to the Republicans in congress.
The features on this two-disc edition raises the question: Does Waters have stocks in Morton and Campbell’s?
“Sweet love, renew thy force.” A commendable collection of a maverick’s final films.
Given that this new DVD is an almost exact facsimile of the 2003 disc, they should have just called it the “I Wanna Be Like You” Edition.
For nearly a decade, I’ve felt a certain allegiance to Robert Altman’s Short Cuts, and I’d never seen a single frame of it.
Looks and sounds better than any bootleg video we’ve ever gotten our hands on.
Haneke’s admonishments are disturbing only in the sense that they’re never self-critical.
Only for Jacques Demy completists, and the stray Donovan devotee.
A shamefully bare-bones DVD for a shamefully neglected film.