Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s horror comedy is sharp in more ways than one.
The film doesn’t so much bring us closer to the serial murderer as it reminds us of our culpability as spectators.
The Exorcist meets The Contender in the The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
These films highlight an area of the world that is as politically engaged as any other and whose voices insist on being heard.
Bennett Miller’s film has an axe to grind against its subject, the quite horrible but quite gifted writer Truman Capote.
HellBent is distinguished by it’s uniquely perverse obsession with disability.
It would be easier to write off Undiscovered as a committee picture conceived by studio hacks if it weren’t for its distracting direction.
In Separate Lies, the bombshells don’t illuminate emotion.
There are a dozen ways this work could have adapted successfully with a little vision, but c’est la vie, one supposes.
Shadowy cinematography isn’t enough to conceal Peter Hyams’s crashing directorial clumsiness.
Daltry Calhoun proves to be as slight as a blade of grass—and, unfortunately, about as intoxicating as the legal kind.
In spite of its individual pleasures, the film has very little in its head.
Nature has its logic and it’s one that Deborah Koons Garcia defends with sobering integrity.
Transporter 2 is a martial arts-obsessed action movie inadvertently reconceived as cartoonish parody.
The presentation is too fake to be real and not nearly fake enough to be called avant-garde.
Andrew Niccol’s Lord of War is little more than an ammunition-littered variation on Blow.
Slant recently spoke with the director about Monty Python, Buñuel, the hardships of dark comedy and the elusiveness of perfection.
There’s something oddly compelling, albeit pretentious, about the film’s rudimentary visual argot.
This Oliver Twist isn’t the nasty affair that Roman Polanski fans might be hoping for.
Neil Jordan’s film is an odd, at times off-putting mixture of camp inflection and earnest insight.
Thomas Riedelsheimer’s documentary cinema is enthralled by the intangible.