Though Visconti operates on the surface level of the material, he crafts a seductive surface.
Bloodline poses an implicit dilemma to viewers and critics: How do we know if what we’re watching is real?
This is a dull psychological thriller every bit as dispensable as any of the lurid offerings of Gil Kofman’s fictional counterpart.
Memory Thief chews more than it can swallow.
As a celebration of Israel, Laura Bialis’s documentary about Russian Jews is bittersweet at best.
Surfwise tries to separate itself from the fray of political documentaries by not taking itself too seriously.
In person, Robert Towne looks every inch the survivor of the Seventies New Hollywood that he is.
Keith Uhlich guested on yesterday’s Movie Geeks United! podcast, chatting about the Sarasota and Tribeca film festivals, Speed Racer, and more.
Director Bruce McDonald splits his screen eight ways to Sunday in The Tracey Fragments.
Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher bring a surprising sweetness to their generic roles and the story’s contrived situations.
Twister is so 1990s it hurts.
David Duchovny’s sleepy-time conviction to Rick Greenwald’s script is the least of this documentary’s problems.
This film is as simple as “war is not the answer…only love can conquer hate.”
Nick Broomfield is so focused on the desert he can’t see through the sand.
Watching Speed Racer is comparable to dousing one’s eyeballs in a sugary hyper-digitized Skittles soup.
Daddies, don’t let your daughters grow up to be babysitters, because according to this film, it’s a gateway to whoredom.
Leigh’s famous working process received special attention throughout the Q&A, particularly from the aspiring filmmakers in the crowd.
Part Peter Jackson gross-out fest, part shapeless political commentary, cult director Lloyd Kaufman’s film is grindhouse schlock without form or content.
Nick Broomfield reduces the characters to lambs sacrificed in tensely directed but subject-cheapening action sequences.
Serial Mom is the strongest film of the post-midnight-movie chapter of John Waters’s career.
The world seems a little brighter, a little sunnier each day we wake up together.