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The film’s synthesis of fiction and documentary is smooth and compelling, especially during its climax inside Madison Square Garden.
Barbara Albert’s Falling is a trip down memory lane marred by estrangement, conflict, and wistfulness.
Robert Altman’s disgruntled comedy only seems a relatively straightforward buddy film.
The Host is a monster movie for our terrorism and biological warfare-shrouded era.
Everything and everyone is whittled down to fit, peg-like, into corresponding black holes of socially progressive allegory.
A pity party that makes flip and calculated light of everything from sexual discovery, religion, insanity, recovery, you name it.
The Departed jumps out of the gate like a caged lion freed into the wild.
Alain Resnais’s Gallic transposition of British playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s Private Fears in Public Places is a masterful trifle.
Ariel’s kingdom is only matched in depth by her sense of consumer-minded entitlement.
James Whale was a master of the kinds of effects that exist on screen in a durable and solid form.
Leatherface is saddled here with a backstory that winds up sapping him of his mysterious, primal horror.
What holds everything in place are the physiognomies of the primarily non-professional cast.
Kon once more trains his thematic sights on collective societal madness in Paprika.
Frat boys and KKK members will surely love it.
Brazilian director Maria Ramos opens a window on a criminal courtroom in Rio de Janeiro.
There’s a rough-and-tumble grace to Werner Herzog’s first fiction masterpiece.
Where to begin? At the end, perhaps, with the word sweet, the film’s answer to Mulholland Drive’s silencio.
John Boorman’s In My Country moves the heart in ways that Catch a Fire never approaches.
The film does Truman Capote justice and makes a sharp case for the power and destructiveness of liberated feelings.
The film ultimately has little to say about friendship other than that it’s sometimes maintained by less-than-kind motives.