Whenever Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt aren’t on screen together, the movie magic dissipates.
Woody Allen has grown up a lot since Take the Money and Run and it shows.
The film’s simple truths about the nature of family and friendship will give young children something to chew on.
The whole of the film is less than the sum of its parts, but the parts are often breathtakingly shot.
The film is as much a relevant view of adolescence and male/female relations as it is an act of remembrance.
Despite a suspenseful jolt or two, this cornball Hitchcock riff is anything but subtle.
The Whip and the Body is at once frightening and hysterical, a gothic rendition of a D.H. Lawrence tale.
The overall effect is like opening a present on Christmas morning.
Its brilliance emanates equally from its structure, the acuteness of its gaze, and Edward Yang’s acknowledgement of life as a series of alternately humdrum and catastrophic occurrences.