On the occasion of Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s release, we ranked all the films in the MCU.
It feels akin to spending 135 minutes being led through an unnervingly well-mounted haunted mansion.
The film is unfortunately committed to keeping its subjects, especially Headfort’s students, at arm’s length.
Danny Strong’s film suggests dramatic Tetris, and it leeches J.D. Salinger and his process of any mystery.
The brothers discuss the hot-button issues at the film’s center and their unique filmmaking approach.
The film successfully argues that it’s through sensory details that we access the deeper aspects of our lives.
The documentary goes a long way toward complicating our moral assumptions about trophy hunting.
Though some of Spettacolo’s tension is superficial, its latent anxieties are myriad and profoundly resonant.
Initially colorful, the screenplay’s lurid and overripe dialogue eventually grinds the film to a halt.
Despite its interesting macro approach compared to other films of its ilk, it’s far less successful on a micro level.
Writer-director Denis Côté’s film offers an oxymoronic parable that’s been utilized countless times by cinema.
This is a cerebral, 25-year-old film that follows the blueprint for today’s endless glut of superhero movies.
The film is the first masterpiece of what would become an increasingly technocratic ’80s movie-house takeover.
There’s a Tarkovskian layer of social despair in the web of corruption joining the child and the adult.
It’s hard to tell who’s being lampooned and who’s being treated with sincerity at any given point.
It sharply trumpets Dolores Huerta’s life and centrality in the turbulent history of social justice since the ’60s.
The only thing that offsets its self-negating revisionism are the scenes involving Gillian Anderson vicereine.
It was clearly conceived by men who have no interest in approaching female friendships with any degree of complexity, curiosity, or respect.
With its dull mixture of indifferently staged exposition and action, it suggests a primitive side-scrolling video game.
James Ivory’s Heat and Dust offers plenty of opportunity to luxuriate in exquisite period and location detail.
It’s almost impossible for the film to honor its predecessor without lapsing into contrived and preordained formula.