The film suggests David Lynch’s masterful mindfuck Inland Empire for the influencer set.
Like United 93, Day Night Day Night exploits our post-9/11 anxieties.
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Snyder’s 300 is a twin fount of humorlessness and turgidity.
All anxiety is born in darkness. Fear is mystery’s child.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does afford the opportunity to obtain (or reclaim) self-worth in Michal Rosa’s film.
Though this is the story of only one pilot, the film would almost have us believe all bad sitcoms happen on purpose.
What Hermila is looking for is never clear, but it’s evident that she will essay her happiness completely on her own terms.
Congorama’s surfeit of plot twists and implausible coincidences strain narrative credibility.
Abbas Kiarostami is exhausted, and understandably so.
Taste of Cherry might be Kiarostami’s most difficult film, what with its generally languorous rhythms and its nonchalant inquiry into suicide.
With Great World of Sound, director Craig Zobel is shooting fish in a barrel.
With his second feature, Gradually…, Iranian director Maziar Miri explores the misogynistic group-think that plagues a young husband.
A cold synthetic invention, 300 catches the eye but leaves the heart indifferent.
If the men in Peter Pan are all united in their love of war games, the women fare no better under their two options.
Entering the media installation portion of the retrospective is akin, one suspects, to entering the Iranian master’s head.
In Black Snake Moan, Samuel L. Jackson bathes Christina Ricci and they don’t end up having sex.
The story is told by Rajko Grlic as a carefree series of serio-comic encounters, recalling the spirit of Catch-22.
A revolutionary vision of emancipation through sensuality, the film is a song of love both universal and eternal.
Richard Attenborough’s polished, thoroughly safe veneration of the great political and spiritual Indian leader has no room for contradiction.
Zhang simply tells a story itching with melodrama and socio-historical resonance in as sober and still a voice as he can muster.