The film is eventually caught up in the very pomp and splendor that it initially lampoons.
If the spirit world’s judgement is all eye-for-an-eye, it bears mentioning that there’s an underlying sexism to the film.
Michael Tollin’s bizarre Radio is a syrupy tale of uplift drenched in uneasy Southern comfort.
The Company is about the creative process, but it’s also about weathering it.
Make no mistake: Whale Rider is essentially The Karate Kid Down Under.
Leave it to Joel Schumacher to turn Veronica Guerin into a piece of crude, bland hero worship.
Sylvia is a Lifetime bio-pic set in a BBC melodrama’s charcoal gray gloom and squalor.
In the end, the unexpressive Rodney Bingenheimer is nowhere near as interesting as his friends and neighbors.
Runaway Jury begins as a thriller and ends as a tract that doesn’t even have the decency to be well made propaganda.
Like its predecessor, The Barbarian Invasions plays out as a midlife version of American Pie.
Raja is a romantic tug of war that brings to mind both a Shakespearean comedy of errors and Bernardo Bertolucci’s undervalued Besieged.
José Padilha’s taut, elegantly structured Bus 174 is essentially a chronicle of a death foretold.
For anyone who doubts that a film that’s soaked in camp can’t tackle a timely subject, here is Lipstick.
Tsai’s elegy to a now-departed Taipei theater is also a beautiful love poem to the movies.
There’s no humanity buried beneath the life-is-bleak passages of Barbara Albert’s film.
Ross McElwee’s documentary reminds us to cherish every mysterious moment in our lives.
Since Otar Left is meant to play out like a fable, but Julie Bertuccelli’s direction isn’t nimble enough to carry it off.
The entire film is stitched together from a collection of long shots that stress the expansive emotional distance between an odd couple.
The film’s constant bloodletting is more desensitizing than provocative.
Peter Collinson’s The Italian Job is a freewheeling, completely unpretentious chase comedy.
The Singing Detective is tedious to sit through mostly because its every moment feels so painfully misguided.