Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Based on a long-running stage success and wildly popular upon its first release, Seventh Heaven is probably Frank Borzage’s most famous film.
Imagine a film about Jesus where his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene were played by the same actress.
This tactless dud plays out like a more one-sided, special effects-laden rendition of The Break-Up.
America: Freedom to Fascism is a whacked-out piece of anti-American propaganda.
The unique quality of History Is Made at Night is its ability to turn on a dime.
What’s disheartening about Monster House isn’t just that it turns out to be a spasmodic, cacophonous roller coaster ride.
Compared with his geekily gonzo Versus, Ryuhei Kitamura’s Azumi is surprisingly tame and lucid.
Frank Borzage’s imaginative power here is singular, fantastic, and inimitable, even God-like.
All appearances and hypnotic suggestions to the contrary, identity is Dr. Mabuse’s wager of choice.
Man’s Castle is harsh-spirited, episodic, in a rage over the ghastly injustices of economic privation.
The Puffy Chair never quite strikes a comfortable or graceful balance between silliness and solemnity.
Joe May’s little-noir-that-couldn’t \keeps its bobbed-head firmly to the ground where its most famous contemporaries scale isosceles-triangular angles.
Queer Duck: The Movie has the homespun charm of an early season of The Simpsons.
The film is all mixed messages and it’s funnier because of it.
Society says that real men don’t eat quiche, and they don’t cry.
The sense of disquiet that The Quiet stirs feels unintentional, suggesting behind-the-scenes conflict.
It’s hard to think of a recent film that nails the circular games of adults trying to get laid and then talking their way out of it.
Where one film dramatizes and fulfills its own prophecy, the other ignores the apparition in the corner of the room.
There’s little respite from the bargain-bin cheesiness of The Groomsmen.
Zak Tucker’s Poster Boy is no film, it’s a soapbox.