Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
It would be foolish to deny the supreme technical achievements of Children of Men.
Roll up your sleeves and let’s do it.
Cuarón’s virtuostic vision is laced with magical-realist touches and reflective of the constant flux that is the bane of so many refugee and immigrant lives.
Zhang Yimou moves ever closer to grand opera with Curse of the Golden Flower.
Linda Linda Linda’s moderate adherence to formula is its one truly limiting quality.
The film, which appears poised to deliver a wrenchingly personal account of the Armenian genocide, is undone by marketplace concessions.
The film suggests not so much the stirring of a soul as Sir Ridley grinding his teeth behind the camera.
The film is not a tapestry so much as it is an inflammation of white culpability.
Dance Party, USA is attuned to teenspeak frequencies, but its title is some kind of presumptuous.
Remember when Brittany Murphy said she would never tell in Don’t Say a Word?
The film feels flimsy at 71 minutes, lacking both in ambition and focus.
The movie’s character development signposts and sociological observations are hamfisted from the get-go.
As the saying goes, if you see only one Rivette film…
Edward Copeland and Wagstaff publish simultaneous reviews of Fraga’s great documentary.
Richard Linklater does an admirable job of shoehorning in as much of the sprawling nonfiction narrative as he can.
Each of its stories is a hissy fit of heinous proportions, one progressively worse than the other.
Ostensibly an adaptation of the oft-filmed Wuthering Heights, Hurlevent feels more like a schematic indication of Emily Brontë’s famed novel, though that should not be taken as a criticism.
At age 63, McDowell is one of the few living links to a host of great British actors who are now gone.
Was General Spanky as funny in 1936 as it is today?
What rankles me the most is the received wisdom that somehow Flags of Our Fathers has too broad of a canvas for Eastwood and thus is outside his particular wheelhouse.