These films are generous reminders that cinema isn’t always about diagnosing global problems.
As with so much of Disney’s female-centric fantasies, the energetic film eventually peddles the same old ass-backward messages.
August Rush’s devotion to following through on its screwy internal logic is almost genius.
The film may draw the wrath of activists who monitor crimes against comedy.
It’s necessary to rescue the Frank Capra film from its status as an untouchable American “classic.”
Sawdust and Tinsel is Bergman’s first film where the idea of humiliation, specifically sexual humiliation, becomes crucial to his conception.
The film is such a fluffy cotton candy confection that it can’t be bothered to manufacture any legitimate dramatic tension.
The film caters to two of the most basic, primal fantasies of hetero adolescent males: slaying a dragon and bedding Angelina Jolie.
As a multiethnic society, Malaysia bears the influence of both its Malay majority and its strong Chinese and Indian minorities.
The transcendent empathy of Billy the Kid leaves almost every other documentary on the block behind.
Oswald’s Ghost only skims the surface of the short- and long-term social and political ramifications of JFK’s death.
The potential culture clash between foul-mouthed liberal jokesters and conservative audiences proves nonexistent.
This is a wild movie on a very large scale that’s bound to alienate a lot of people.
A film of remarkable forwardness, honesty, and humor, built, like all fairy tales, around one message, summed up late in the script.
I for India acts as a ravishing film-on-film commentary.
The problem is the world is full of people.
What Mike Newells film lacks in brio it makes up for in reverence.
P2 trembles in the shadow of Red Eye, but it’s not without its virtues.
The dominant impression left by Midnight Eagle is one of filmmakers making things up as they go along.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars is almost unsurpassed in its scientific accuracy.
This misguided documentary mistakes cutesy, polished aesthetics for meaningful sentiment.