Though Visconti operates on the surface level of the material, he crafts a seductive surface.
With Bug, William Friedkin uses light, color, and sound to evoke subjective experience.
The film is a necessarily refreshing look at the dynamics of revolution.
Once understands how intimate and vulnerable an act it is to share some small creation you’ve slaved over with someone else.
Jarhead is fundamentally unsatisfying, but it’s hard to imagine how it could be anything else.
Sam Mendes is a magnet for player haters.
You Kill Me doesn’t hold up to great scrutiny, so its best taken in a cable-movie kind of way.
Like Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third is an experiment in excess.
It’s an empathetic portrait of a particular human circumstance, but without greater context, it ultimately feels like only half the story.
The film fails to even equal its forebear’s handful of flashy CG moments.
Produced by Moriah Films, the media subdivision of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the film is predictably hagiographic in nature.
Rolling Like a Stone is a film acutely aware of its own power over life.
Relatability is certainly a key component of Knocked Up’s inherent appeal.
The San Francisco International Film Festival might be forgiven for a bit of self-love.
Don’t expect 2001: The Next Generation
Jay Stern’s film evokes the confrontational intimacy of a minimalist theater production.
The technical shortcomings of many Fuller films lend credibility to his “roll up your sleeves and start slinging the shit around” approach to moviemaking.
The film mixes screwy humor, cheesily earnest romance, and anti-hero worship by way of the shaggy-dog tale of its titular slacker-loser.
Shrieking like a banshee has unfortunately become Brenda Blethyn’s stock in trade since her remarkable breakout turn in Secrets &Lies.
The film’s patchwork of plot devices is oddly appropriate given its impossibly moronic, prejudice-ridden characters.
Maybe one hardly needs a film to see that mankind is incapable of having good sex without it revealing their other various ineptitudes.