Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Aaron Russo’s alarmism is matched by dubious interpretations of facts.
MGM megastars Clark Gable and Joan Crawford headline Strange Cargo, a humid prison break movie that turns into a bald-faced religious allegory.
The Ordeal has a sick sexual frisson that sometimes resonates.
Here are five performance pieces from one of Noo Joisey’s favorite sons.
The film is a very sharp critique of a self-congratulating subculture that celebrated inarticulateness and clad itself in swastikas.
The Trouble with Men and Women proves that formless, navel-gazing tales of sex in the city aren’t simply the province of American indies.
This is the most dubious animation since Robert Zemeckis’s creepy The Polar Express.
The film materializes and soars out of a splendiferous, almost sci-fi ether.
On the surface, Jan Svankmajer’s Lunacy is indebted to Edgar Allan Poe, but Sadean blood courses through its veins.
The Last of the Mohicans is a primal epic of survival and the overpowering urge to reproduce.
To the film’s credit, the inevitable third-act competition is staged to bring forward the absurd humor that eluded Days of Thunder.
Where Bob Fosse edited to the dance, Michael Mann edits to the music underscoring his glossy depictions of extreme violence.
The film benefits from eerily rich Technicolor and careful handling of the increasingly matronly Jeanette MacDonald by director Frank Borzage.
Nothing distinguishes The Spanish Main from a dozen other pirate films of this ilk.
Frank Borzage is always getting away from society and its customs, from marriage and houses, taxes and details.
The result is a nearly perfect hybrid film, lusciously careful and Lubitsch-like with passionate Borzage feelings underneath.
Until someone truly reinvents the stagnant romantic-comedy genre, trifles like Bart Freundlich’s Trust the Man will have to suffice.
When Farrell and Foxx are in motion, they’re able to coast along on their charismatic movie star presences.
It sheds light on a fascinating art world and justice system constantly in search of an offender.
The film candidly expresses the plight of working-class iconoclasts for whom life entails dealing with a steady stream of burdensome obstacles.