Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The heart of the film is in the domestic scenes between the husband and wife.
Not Quite Hollywood may be shallow, but that shallowness is in tune with its subject.
Judd Apatow’s reflexive, cock-obsessed picture posits Adam Sandler’s infantilism as something like an eternal condition.
The film earned the Dardennes a screenwriting award at Cannes, and, indeed, the plot machinery is more visible here than in their other gritty fables.
The film’s maudlin, self-sabotaging audience-coddling is right out of the Zemeckis playbook.
The titular backslash of Import/Export turns out to be a vast geographical schism.
The infamous grindhouser Torso pales next to director Sergio Martino’s more inventive sleaze-thrillers.
Repulsion refers to a lot of other movies, but its queasy black humor is entirely Polanski.
The film is essentially a giallo fanboy’s interpretation of Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, maybe even George Stevens’s A Place in the Sun.
Less a movie than a sociology thesis, Fragments follows a bunch of post-traumatic Los Angelenos after they’ve witnessed a shooting inside a diner.
Roy Andersson’s You, the Living is a masterpiece of droll misery.
Marcus Dunstan’s The Collector signals much of what’s wrong with torture porn.
The only question that remains is who will play Flame and Citron in the requisite Hollywood remake.
By the end, most of the promising threads initiated at the movie’s start dead-end in the Hamburg rain.
Senior citizens may be old, but they can do anything that you and I can do.
In the end, the nightmare power of their imagery is the same.
Madeline Kahn was as close as you come to a universally loved performer.
G-Force revolves around a nefarious plot known as “Clusterstorm,” though it’s a less PG-rated type of cluster that best describes this guinea pigs-as-spies adventure.
Say what you will about Boaz Yakin’s epically awful Death in Love, but it wastes no time letting you know what you’re in for.
At least the charmingly brittle chemistry between leads Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler keeps things moving pleasurably enough along.