The festival’s greatest singularity is two-fold: its lack of pretense and judicious curatorial eye.
Sending up Jack Nicholson’s real-life penchant for dating younger women, the film benefits greatly from his rascally screen presence.
It lacks the comic mastery of Kingpin and Shallow Hal’s cutting insights about body image, but it’s still a big-hearted charmer.
The film serviceably recreates the clique-infested teen culture of an affluent suburban high school.
Is Nicole Kidman contractually obligated to interact with birds in all her films?
Among favorite cinephile pet auteurs, no one’s reputation has had a rougher ride than that of Otto Preminger.
Mike Newell’s Mona Lisa Smile is a hopeless lesson on how to beat a dead horse.
True crime, secret lesbians, Floridian trailer trash, and ’80s pop music—these lurid ingredients come together in Monster.
The film is content to be a squishy, serious-minded lesson about embracing one’s heritage and cherishing the virtues of valor and respect.
Throughout, Peter Jackson’s majestic longshots and extreme close-ups will make you swoon.
One of the finest things one could say about Young Sherlock Holmes is that it endeavors to honor a legend.
Looks like someone’s been watching Dangerous Minds.
The only thing more outdated than Cheaper by the Dozen’s soundtrack is its hokey life lessons.
Sergio Leone made a fistful of great films, but none better than this ode to the fading American frontier.
The film’s father-son disconnect is a ham-fisted one, but Paul Newman and Melvyn Douglas make for excellent sparring partners.
The war between America and the Middle East is in full metaphoric force in Vadim Perelman’s ridiculous eviction melodrama.
When it comes to the cinematic translation of his pulpy adventures, a little dash of “unlikeliness” never hurts.
Now it makes sense why Fox didn’t screen The Order a few months back for critics: The film doesn’t make a lick of sense!
Bad Santa tries to be as vulgar and offensive as possible so that it might somehow justify the inevitability of its own happy ending.
Most impressive is its sympathetic portrayal of a shunned community in all its self-contained, lip-biting game-face pride.
Love Me Tonight still stands as a definitive musical.