The sense of concurrent being and non-being is key to the Michael Mann aesthetic and ethos.
The film rarely articulates the book’s ideas with any real sense of the outside world without resorting to easy exaggerations.
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Ridley Scott’s tale of greed and revenge practically begs for melodramatic excess.
Ridley Scott’s medieval saga insightfully revels in the complexities of its competing storylines.
The musical format proves a natural fit for Leos Carax’s love of the visual fantasies created by the cinema’s most basic means of illusion.
Criterion’s release of Noah Baumbach’s latest is built to last.
Luckily for Joaquin Phoenix, he’s not up against anyone playing a real-life individual.
The film struggles to both honor and redeem the past before everything comes to a close.
In the end, it can’t help but sentimentalize the better angels that supposedly reside in the land of liberty’s flawed human fabric.
Throughout, the subtle glimpses of a couple’s lingering affection for one another complicate the bitterness of their separation.
In the film, what starts as a subtle undercurrent of knowing humor curdles into overt self-referentiality.
By the end, Cervantes’s heroes are at last free to move beyond representative confinement and finally speak freely as equals.
Mahershala Ali, still fresh off his prior win in this category, performs utter miracles with the role of jazz pianist Dr. Don Shirley.
This disc is barebones, so Spike Lee fans will have settle for a solid transfer of the film itself when relishing this fo’ real, fo’ real shit at home.
The film registers an awareness for the narcotic qualities of cinema, particularly films that address matters of race.
The Last Jedi is largely content to further the themes and narrative strategies of J.J. Abrams’s predecessor.
Soderbergh’s bracingly playful return to cinema is accorded a stunning transfer and little else, though the film itself is more than enough.
Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories is a cunning and frequently hilarious film about exhuming the past and finding no diamond in the rough.
Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky is an ensemble comedy that’s simultaneously effervescent and cerebral.
Martin Scorsese crafts a versatile, multifaceted work that encourages serious reflection and contemplation.