This relentlessly cruel rejiggering makes every Evil Dead film before seem like Sunday school.
Because Rob Marshall takes little pain to create a life between musical numbers, Chicago plods along from one outburst to the next.
Catch it if you can.
Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York could be considered a breakthrough or a breakdown.
Narc earns comparison to landmark ’70s police thrillers like The French Connection and Serpico.
The film’s women are little more than sudsy abstractions of cross-generational repression.
Despite the 2D animation, the film makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience.
It isn’t an infuriating film until you comprehend how it works to pacify the tea-and-crumpets fanbase.
With all of its oversights and indulgences, 25th Hour is still a persuasive, undeniably fascinating film.
Martin Scorsese visited early New York, Paul Thomas Anderson put Adam Sandler in a Jerry Lewis suit, and Eminem returned to his Detroit roots.
Could it be true? After so many years of bloodshed and war, can peace between the Federation and the Romulans actually be at hand?
Narrative takes a backseat to a sometimes frustrating, sometimes fascinating study of Samantha Morton’s face in Morvern Callar.
The gears of sentimental uplift are effectively oiled in Bruce Beresford’s Evelyn.
The film’s greatest strength is how Peter Jackson brings to life the haunting conflict between Gollum and Smeagol.
The film is burned by endless slow patches and, ultimately, feels painfully routine.
The film aggressively courts Latino viewers by playing exactly to the prescribed notion of what movie studios think “urban” audiences really want.
Donald Kaufman is to Charlie Kaufman as Charlie Kaufman is to Susan Orlean as Susan Orlean is to John Laroche.
The film could have easily been titled Dead Roman’s Club had its makers wanted to be a little more accurate.
It’s not too difficult to pinpoint exactly where Marisa Ventura went wrong.
Roberto Benigni’s take on Carlo Collodi’s classic fairy tale “Pinocchio” bears an unlikely resemblance to Fellini’s more grotesque carnivalesques.
If not the best film ever made about mental disorder, Spider is certainly the most painstaking.