Review: Fear and Trembling

Cartoons predictably grappling with issues of respect, honor, and subservience, the film’s Asian characters act and sound like throwbacks.

Review: The Sea Inside

After the one-two-three punch of Tesis, Open Your Eyes, and The Others, Alejandro Amenábar has gone completely out of his mind.

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Review: Head-On

The film is a masochistic spectacle of mostly unexamined violence, self-injury, rape, and naughty sex.

Review: Philadelphia

For Jonathan Demme, a filmmaker whose raison d’être is the celebration of diversity, Philadelphia is an unfortunate misstep.

Review: Alfie

There’s little sassiness or swing to this toothless update of the minor late-’60s film that made Michael Caine a star.

Review: After the Sunset

At what point after a film is greenlit does a movie exec turn to the filmmakers and demand an intimate “homo” moment between the screenplay’s straight dudes?

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Review: It’s Alive

Larry Cohen disquietingly blurs the lines between what’s normal and what’s not, and what it is to love a child unconditionally.

Review: The Thing

John Carpenter wisely turns his focus on the fissures of his own microcosmic civilization under duress than that of their skin and veins.

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