Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Juvenile provocation for provocation’s sake, Hard Candy delights in its stylishly deviant material.
Prepare to feel cheated.
Girl 6, the story of a girl and her stint in the phone sex biz, is a sloppy and problematic film, no diggity.
Ridley Scott’s Gladiator aspires to be Spartacus by way of The Godfather.
Deepa Mehta’s Water is the third film in the director’s Elemental Trilogy, following 1996’s Fire and 1998’s Earth.
In every Takamine film there’s a hazy quality that marks the filmmaker as an unapologetic sensualist.
Imagine a heist film cast by the Rainbow Coalition and you have some idea of what Spike Lee does with Inside Man.
You know it’s hard out there for a pimp, but that wasn’t always the case.
Things That Hang From Trees offers a slice of special education-tinged Southern gothic minus the evocative eccentricity.
Peter Watkins was reacting against Vietnam, but his assessment can easily be translated into today’s hotbed political climate.
As its title suggests, the frenetic Italian youth picture Texas is a pastiche of primarily Western influences.
The social and political upheavals of the Cultural Revolution are glanced over to make way for ineffectually meta-movie counterpoints.
Some very good actors speak in some very funny voices in Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School.
With The Promise, a once-promising director continues down an ill-advised path toward mainstream mediocrity.
Géla Babluani delivers gimmicky thrills posing as hard-nosed neo-noir with 13 (Tzameti).
This is a brisk but one-note comedy that finds little to say about love except that it’s never as easy as it appears in melodramatic fiction.
Twelve and Holding comes off as something of a neo-con paranoid fantasy.
Make no mistake, there’s an epic scope to October 17, 1961.
This year’s edition shouldn’t be shrugged off because there are no sure-things like Murderball and Junebug on the bill.
A struggle emerges behind the camera that’s every bit as intense as the drama that pans out in front.