The series handles teched-up sci-fi concepts with the urgency of a conspiracy thriller and grounds them in a relatable family drama.
In the film, the Battle of Midway suggests something out of a photorealistic animated film.
It initially acknowledges Vinny Paz’s machismo before becoming another formulaic triumph-over-adversity saga.
Sully presses the case that the complexity of the human condition distracts us from the pure dignity of a noble act.
Like its predecessor, Babak Najafi’s London Has Fallen is content to dumbly relish in the inanity of Mike’s rampage.
All of the film’s nuances are ultimately negated by the its relentless canonization of its subject.
Seldom pushes beyond the bare-minimum dictates of the thriller, only rarely offering up a memorable action sequence.
The film spends its first act establishing a flimsy emotional groundwork before gleefully taking a sledgehammer to it just seconds into act two.
Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary is an amorphous hodgepodge of a film that wants to be many things.
The DVD is unremarkable, but Rabbit Hole is a wrenching, superbly acted film that deserves to find an audience.
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel bored.
Aiming for a refined style of catharsis, John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole is the kind of tragedy that requires a human sacrifice.
Brandon Camp tries to transcend the standard rom-com with a character-study bent, but poor execution renders Love a misfire.
Collectors and franchise geeks will no doubt go batty for this two-disc set.
One thing is for sure here: Alan Ball’s condescension is equal opportunity.
The Dark Knight is the most entertaining blockbuster of the summer, which still doesn’t mean it’s any good.
Now you see it, now you don’t. That about encapsulates the depths of feeling and artistry in The Dark Knight.
The film is a series of pertinent moral predicaments delivered via sleek procedural-genre circumstances.
No Reservations is a cinematic culinary treat for those without a discerning palate.
One of the finest Cinemascope films of recent years is presented in a mostly excellent anamorphic transfer.