Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The film’s fanciful archival montages shrewdly demonstrate the ways in which memory and art seamlessly combine to document reality.
John Maggio’s documentary is workmanlike in presentation but scintillating in its content.
The Tomorrow War is little more than a clunky, Nolan-esque exercise in instruction-manual cinema.
The Purge films have never been subtle, but Everardo Gout’s The Forever Purge is blunt to the extreme.
Zola earns its cutting observations about how social media encapsulates culture’s ability to commercialize anything.
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.
Black Widow isn’t terribly hard to follow, but in execution the film moves so haphazardly as to be bewildering.
The shadow of Risky Business looms large, and distractingly, over Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp’s film.
In a year of seemingly constant transition, cinema is shining a beacon to help point the way forward.
While 52 remains something of a mystery, The Loneliest Whale renders him less of a metaphor.
The film is a muddle of clichés and unremarkable action sequences that bleed together into a cacophony.
The film becomes unexpectedly, effectively violent just when you’ve written it off as a glorified SNL sketch.
At its best, F9 delivers the most spatially coherent, dynamic car scenes in the series to date.
Against the Current’s style imposes a generic visual language onto a subject who’s anything but generic.
The film accomplishes a restoration of sorts, allowing us to see how historical objects can confer meaning on a new context.
The film tends toward the dramatically monotonous, but its unwavering sense of purpose ensures that it’s also compellingly human.
The film threads classic horror tropes with a woozy, partially comic sensibility but doesn’t fully commit to this approach.
Throughout, there are moments when you may feel as if Drew Xantholoulos could push harder on the film’s philosophical implications.
Morgan Neville’s documentary understands that Anthony Bourdain’s gifts and curses were cojoined.
Pixar’s most intimate and laidback effort since Ratatouille feels like a throwback to one of Mark Twain’s rollicking picaresque sagas.