Though Visconti operates on the surface level of the material, he crafts a seductive surface.
File that “movie that might’ve been” right alongside a Welles version of Heart of Darkness starring Boris Karloff as Kurtz.
Spider-Man 3 sees Spider-Man as a rock star who allows the public’s adulation of his heroism to go to his head.
Parenthood is a four-family, four-hankie weepie in which most of the characters talk like screenwriters.
Harry and the Hendersons eventually emerges as a vegetarian screed.
The trailer for Vivere piqued my interest immediately.
This short but ambitious documentary provokes considerable thought from its subjects about the aesthetics and morality of image-making.
The New Zealand landscape offers mesmeric counterpoint to any and all budgetary limitations.
Outright dismissal is the gut reaction that many will have upon first glance at Jamie Kennedy’s new would-be star vehicle.
Aussie filmmaker Ray Lawrence’s debt to Robert Altman in Lantana is made explicit in his new film.
David S. Goyer’s film subsumes genuine emotion beneath mountains of pretentious aesthetics.
Tony Scott relocates our sense of real-world helplessness to realms of deluded fantasy.
Given its overwhelming density of execution, it’s strange that some have considered Lars von Trier’s new film a light-hearted experience.
I’ve seen porn with better dialogue and SNL sketches with less amateur production values.
Producer Bob Yari returns to the Crash well with Even Money and comes up with a turgid PSA about the dangers of gambling.
It commences with an homage to ’70s-era exploitation films, but its tale of cancerous modern technology is pure present-day.
For the first time there’s a sense that Tsai is treading water, ineffectually replaying themes better explored in earlier works.
Graeme Obree is clearly a great man, but you wouldn’t know it from this uncomplicated evocation of his life and successes.
The film is a Big Chill for children of the early ’90s.
Despite its uplifting, historically significant story, Something to Cheer About isn’t, unfortunately, what its title proclaims.
The emphasis on locations is where Claire Denis begins to rear her creative head.