Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
In the end, the way the film transforms characters into mouthpieces for misguided hot takes is a bizarre miscalculation.
When its tone slides firmly back into the murk, it’s hard not to see DC’s notion of heroism as borderline nihilistic.
The film physicalizes gender upheaval with an equivocation between sex and violence that’s played for comedy.
The film doesn’t see that border-crossing is inevitably rife with unintended consequences beyond narrative ones.
The film doesn’t have much of a point, as its characters are reductive variables in an inevitable equation of carnage.
Director Pat Collins’s approach to visual composition is more interesting in theory than practice.
Big Sonia is structured in a way that bumps the tragic and demoralizing up against the comic and inspirational.
The film portrays parenting as the death of manhood, a final surrender to the castrating effects of domesticity.
The question of whether art and artist can possibly be detached from one another looms heavily over the film.
It grapples with emotional enigma of infatuation, and the question of how such a mighty force can also be so fleeting.
The film is about the idea of Andy Kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive.
Throughout Dan Gilroy’s film, a promising character study is smothered beneath lazy genre machinations.
The film’s biggest liberty is to make Poirot’s ultimate decision more palatable for American sensibilities.
Trier discusses the challenges he sets up for himself as a filmmaker with each new project.
The film is an interminable saga full of soap-operatic plot twists involving quickly broken marriages, a secret porn career, terminal illness, and more.
Initially offbeat, Bitch awkwardly pivots toward a more inspirational story of regret and reconciliation.
Berlinger discusses why audiences have responded so well to his latest documentary.
Mark Webber’s stripped-down approach renders the messy, unglamorous lives at the film’s center with dignity.
Lady Bird actress Laurie Metcalf discusses how being shy helped her as a young actor.
The filmmaker discusses the trust in the freedom of risk and discomfort.