The film understands that historical truth and personal memory are inseparable.
Mercifully, there’s no offending sermon to talk down to the film’s demographic.
Scott Roberts builds his off-kilter caper with spare parts from every crime film made by the Tarantinos and Guy Richies of the world.
Its self-devouring gags quickly reach their expiration way before their all-too-familiar payoffs are announced.
Horror fans take note: Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later is the real deal.
This unabashedly meaningless affair wholeheartedly subscribes to the more-is-better recipe for cinematic second installments
Alberto Cavalcanti’s contribution might be the finest single episode to appear in any horror anthology film.
Ealing Studios’s opulent adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s novella is a cult classic in search of an audience.
Confessions of an Opium Eater is mainly about our intrinsic need to make human connections.
It would be a lot easier to dismiss The Hanging Garden if its fetishized details weren’t so naked and boldly autobiographical.
My Beautiful Laundrette is every bit the landmark gay film it deserves to be.
The film confronts a litany of moral conundrums regarding guilt, revenge, punishment, justice, and man’s responsibility to himself and society.
The Hunt for Red October is a thrilling edge-of-your-seat trifle that has admirably withstood the test of time.
This is storytelling at once unglamorous and edifying.
The lifeless finale has about as much imagination as a Mini has trunk space.
What could have been a simple five-minute segment on the crisis has become a two-hour celebration of Cuban perseverance.
Its drunk on irony and Jewish folklore, but lacks the existential wallop of the director’s masterful man-versus-earth collisions.
What separates the film from its predecessors is its anarchic, cynical hysteria—its bizarre and dark-as-hell gallows humor.
How much do we need to know about the lives and struggles of our pop-culture heroes in order to appreciate them?
Few will believe that Jim Carrey himself favors this warmed-over pap over a more challenging project.
For any overprotective parent whose ever had issues with their kids taking the car out at night, the film should hit closer to home.