Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
You could say that mixing for a crowd of people is a hedonistic act of human tranceport, something this fictional biopic doesn’t quite grasp
The more elegant Bobby and Peter Farrelly’s films have become, the less money they’ve managed to rake in at the box office.
That the film ends in the most anticlimactic fashion imaginable is no surprise given the pathetic preceding scares.
The film quickly devolves into a depressing imitation of The Exorcist
Amityville 3-D is too poorly written, awkwardly staged, and pathologically stupid to register as campy fun.
It is an anthological example of attentive students surpassing their teacher.
Winter Solstice ultimately gets lost in its own self-conscious gloom.
I refuse to give the man the benefit of the doubt.
The film is an exemplum of Jean Renoir’s skill at linking narratives of complex human beings to progressive sociopolitical readings.
Almost every incidental character has their own song to sing, their moment to define their function in the plot through performance.
Starlit High Noon is a pensive study of infatuation.
Phil Morrison’s Junebug is the older, wiser sibling of home-for-the-holidays family melodramas like Pieces of April.
The Year of the Yao is fashioned with all the objectivity and insight of a promotional special on NBA TV.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s In a Year of 13 Moons is the obvious influence for director Oskar Roehler’s mosaic of miserabilism.
The film reconfigures Stanley Kramer’s creaky race-relations drama Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as a farcical comedy.
Call the film Anatomy of Jenny Craig.
Attention makeup-wearing women of the world: you are weak, bitchy sissies. So says Miss Congeniality 2.
Beauty Shop’s feisty female empowerment comedy feels about as fresh as a Jeri Curl.
Commerce comes to a Chinese countryside in the form of two exotic animals given to an impoverished farmer and his wife.
The Sword of Doom proves itself a film defined by its meticulously precise construction.