Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Tom Tykwer’s film is a that rarity of rarities: a genuinely deviant work of art.
That the film maintains a tone of sickly whimsy throughout tells you all you need to know about the seriousness of the enterprise.
Jauretsi Saizarbitoria and Emilia Menocal’s glossy camera can be uncomplimentary to its locale.
Intertwined storylines vainly strive to convey the complexities of the Iraq War in Philip Haas’s The Situation.
The football movie is such a tight-assed genre that it makes the western and the gangster picture seem flexible in comparison.
Time is relevant, yes?
Walker-Pearlman’s sloppiness as a filmmaker would seem to be an outgrowth of his general unfamiliarity with plausible human behavior.
This remake is smart enough to recognize that only nitwit 20-year-olds and devout Christian families might still be liable to offer hitchhikers a ride.
Andrei Kravchuk’s film doesn’t shrivel into a procession of audience high-fives like The Pursuit of Happyness.
The film is stuck somewhere between an antique genre flick and a metaphysical rumination on responsibility and forgiveness.
By limiting our entry into its protagonist’s headspace, Red Road feels disingenuously committed to sympathetically portraying her situation.
In terms of French cinema, Claire Denis is the synthesis of Bazinian realism and the cinema du look.
Barbara Stanwyck needed only a look to inform you of her characters’ less than noble intentions.
The claim by China Blue’s producers that their film was shot clandestinely is only true to a point.
Oscar trends continue to have shorter and shorter shelf lives as the award season calendar continues to pork up.
The film adds up to nothing more than an innocuous paint-by-numbers lesson about embracing opportunities and enjoying life to its fullest.
The film is an awkward mix of comedy, romance, and out-there fantasy.
The boredom-laced interlude with a Russian doll is itself an all-too-apt metaphor for the film.
This film left me with a heavy heart and a wide smile.
The litmus test for macho actors and characters in Badass movies is to imagine the badass in question sitting in on a Scared Straight session without peeing his pants.