In appealing to the antagonist’s humanity, Peter Park finally gets to fully demonstrate his own.
Think of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s picture as the earnest antidote to Shrek 2’s calculated cynicism.
There’s a certain multi-cultural conflict that distinguishes the Lewton-Tourneurs.
It’s a damned good thing that Joseph H. Lewis had as exciting a visual flair and as much a taste for zero-flab pacing as he did.
Edited so as to resemble an elaborate business presentation, The Corporation may be the most engaging study tool ever devised.
Unlike the sketchy but inspired Marci X, the misguided White Girls doesn’t seem to have anything relevant to say about race relations.
This predictable but heartwarming comedy plays out like an antidote to films like About Schmidt and Napoleon Dynamite.
Jeremy Northam’s character may be lucky enough to find himself, but Cypher itself never finds its soul.
Michael Haussman’s over-directed conspiracy thriller recalls a bad episode of The X-Files.
Stooping to random cameos for worthless non sequiturs is the filmmaking equivalent of a comedic forfeit.
Key to understanding Father and Son is that it begins and ends in its characters’ dreams.
Riding Giants is a boy’s club chronicle of surfing that, while gnarly to look at, feels like too much homework.
Every bit as self-referential as Storytelling, the smug dot the i is only too happy to fuck with your mind.
The good news here is that Michael Moore spends very little time on screen.
All of Robert Aldrich’s early work is intriguing, but Autumn Leaves is his secret gem.
In film noir, you’re doomed if you do and doomed if you don’t.
As with any Mel Brooks film, success depends almost solely on the strength of his cast.
There’s a queasy uncertainty to The Terminal, a thematic discord apparent in the film’s consistently restless mise-en-scène.
As with so much of this muddled remake’s societal critique, the film’s satire is sloppy and vague.
Tony Scott’s increasingly showy cinematographic sensibilities tend toward the ephemeral and shallow.
Remember, Catherine: It must show and not show.