Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
It doesn’t so much play out as a sequel to House of 1000 Corpses but as a recapitulation.
This this film epitomizes the selling-out of the punk movement.
It’s as if Mr. and Mrs. Smith exists only for its own satisfaction.
All too often the overly long and monotonous Après Vous serves up the unfunny kind of absurdity.
The film is a blundering debacle full of barely conceived characters.
It represents some of the first and most essential steps into a new age of filmmaking.
Deep Blue announces itself as the Lord of the Rings of nature documentaries.
The film’s acknowledgement that growing up often requires coming to terms with loss results in a mature, untidy view of adolescence.
Talking animals are a tricky thing to get right, especially in non-animated films.
It overflows with so many gay-centric gags that it’s a wonder the filmmakers didn’t utilize the film’s title for a penis-related pun.
The film’s points about the hypocrisy of populism are a little too dead-on.
It offers a scathing critique of the military establishment, war, and its pervasive glorification.
Madagascar fails to approximate rival CGI cartoon house Pixar’s trademark mix of hilarity and poignancy.
No matter how hard he tries, Robert Rodriguez can’t make 3-D tolerable or cool.
Time and again, Ron Howard aggressively goes for the syrupy jugular rather than allowing his inherently poignant story to throw its own punches.
What was once a hot-topic message movie about the state of juvenile delinquency in inner city schools is now a dinosaur relic of the Eisenhower era.
Elia “Sledgehammer” Kazan’s wildly uneven East of Eden inaugurated the 50-year-old James Dean cult.
Giant still has a reputation as a fine film, and it will no doubt go on boring audiences forever and a day, and then another day after that.
The poetic longing for connection in Ray’s film will always feel timeless.
Don Argott’s documentary initially plays as a fawning postcard from the world of alternative education.