Tension becomes Caitlin Cronenberg’s film. The release of it, not so much.
The film is a wild orchestration of flamboyantly touching images and fair ground theatrics.
The cumbersome Finding Neverland never gets off the ground.
Larry Cohen disquietingly blurs the lines between what’s normal and what’s not, and what it is to love a child unconditionally.
The second and third parts of Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive trilogy are by turns silly and sublime.
The second and third parts of Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive trilogy are by turns silly and sublime.
In the end, the film succeeds only in applauding a materialistic, self-absorbed audience’s pop-cultural cheekiness.
Three on a Couch is a film that flies any number of directions.
John Carpenter wisely turns his focus on the fissures of his own microcosmic civilization under duress than that of their skin and veins.
Like Hitchcock, Lewis’s freewheeling, exquisitely diverting films were often undercut by sinister elements and personal neuroses.
Chazz Palminteri’s romantic dramedy Noel is predicated on all sorts of chance encounters.
Harvey Weinstein may suck, but according to Overnight, Troy Duffy sucks harder.
Jonathan Glazer’s fatal mistake as a storyteller is never owning up to all that is merely hinted at in Nicole Kidman’s face.
Taylor Hackford’s Ray follows cloying Oscar-season conventions to the note.
While the film’s obsession with race and representation may be intellectual, its justified anger and inquisitiveness is tempered with great sensitivity.
Kontroll is another “chill out” production at once lovely and sinister.
Like Luchino Visconti, Franco Zeffirelli identifies with women, but he doesn’t know how to tap into their souls, only their clothes.
The slithering camerawork and claustrophobic compositions help prevent narrative familiarity from breeding utter contempt.
Mike Mitchell’s grating comedy is a tribute to checkbook cheer.
With The Patsy, Jerry Lewis is generous enough to give the whole Dream Factory credit for the gags.
This is the rote story of a sarcastic drunk who falls in love with a one-night stand and learns he has cirrhosis of the liver all in the same week.