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The film mixes the straight, middle-American white male angst of In the Company of Men with the sci-fi trappings of Pi.
The sense of moral responsibility in Hitchcock’s films may have never felt more imperative and succinct.
Though not as personal as his Black and White, James Toback’s When Will I Be Loved is every bit as visually curt.
No Dogville-style polemic or drama of Mystic River-sized proportions here, but the difficult balancing act between commerce and high art is still evident.
Milky Way is intelligent but pretentious, sardonic but callous.
Dolls merely plays out like a work of hegemonic reinforcement.
It’s nothing more complicated than one elongated gay cruise joke-cum-horror story.
Hijacking Catastrophe is a wake-up call.
Can a career with as much popular and critical theory attached to it as Alfred Hitchcock’s still be said to include underrated masterpieces?
Twin Sisters is a mess of forced equations and soapy hysteria.
The film’s little Bible stories are twisted evocations of the dumbing down of faith by Christian anxieties and hang-ups.
The River and Death may be the closest thing to a contract job in Luis Buñuel’s entire canon.
Josh Hartnett is far too stolid to convey the frazzled, fanatical desperation required by Paul McGuigan’s soporific romantic mystery.
However you slice up postwar Japanese cinema, Shohei Imamura is one of its premiere figures.
Quiet and unpretentious, the film’s humanism isn’t confrontational exactly but it’s intense nonetheless.
the film is the more aesthetically and politically astringent but less heartfelt cousin to Luis Buñuel’s Mexican Bus Ride.
The Black Cat is one of the neglected jewels in Universal Studios’s horror crown.
The film’s most unsettling aspect is in how it shows us how little we’ve changed as a culture.
Claude Miller follows his successful Alias Betty with the equally mechanical life-imitating-art La Petite Lili.
Luis Miguel Albaladejo’s film gives way under the strain of too many agendas.