Writer-director Bryan Buckley’s film is ultimately more interested in the journalist than his story.
The film is intended to be placed at the altar of Julian Schnabel, an artist so singular that words simply fail.
David Gordon Green stages even fleeting tonal palate cleansers with a self-consciousness that parallels Al Pacino’s acting.
The chemistry between Pacino and his cast mates gives this lightly amusing contrivance surprising emotional resonance.
Manglehorn is too talky by half, especially when two or even three scenes are superimposed on one another.
Philip Roth’s original ending is cranked up to 11, flattening the more interesting contours of Al Pacino’s performance.
Theodore Melfi’s debut feature, St. Vincent, is a heartwarmer that never insults.
Estelle Parsons has always found something interesting to do.
Coppola’s ambition had always been his best friend and worst enemy.
In Joshua Oppenheimer’s extraordinary The Act of Killing, film becomes the medium for a bold historical reckoning—and in more ways than one.
Longworth’s openness to the less-respected titles in the Pacino canon allows her to fashion a coherent biography of the actor’s work.
Jerry Schatzberg’s film embraces sprawl of both the narrative and geographical variety with freewheeling abandon.
Phil Spector’s nominal entertainment value proceeds almost entirely from its status as an explosive camp object.
Though sans bonus features, the playful macho burlesque of Dick Tracy still strikes a pose.
One of the most accomplished American dramas of the 1990s arrives on Blu-ray sporting a suitably exceptional A/V transfer.
The film is a sloppy cross-mutation of overused generic plot templates.
You might have noticed that Hollywood’s superhero well is running a little dry.
Be them morphine sellers, pot distributors, or even moonshine runners, the party has to stop some time.
We scrounged up an eclectic selection, boasting the likes of Clint Eastwood, Carl Weathers, Warren Beatty, and Eminem.
They’re also unassailable in their perfection, and could easily fall at the top of any all-time best list arrived at by consensus.