The film rarely articulates the book’s ideas with any real sense of the outside world without resorting to easy exaggerations.
The art is both the focus of Kelly Reichardt’s personal new film but also adjacent to the larger exigencies of life.
High Life is a vision of the future as bleak and feverish as director Claire Denis’s 2013 thriller Bastards.
The film exudes a bizarre confidence in not trying to encapsulate Jimi Hendrix’s whole life in 120 minutes.
Battle to Seattle is Stuart Townsend’s attempt to fashion a modern-day Medium Cool.
Semi-Pro is perhaps the feeblest entry in the Will Ferrell Sports Comedy canon.
With Revolver, Guy Ritchie pushes the gangster film into gobbledygook abstraction.
Charlotte’s Web tempts us to look for allegory in Charlotte’s politicking for the other white meat.
A cinematic echo of 2003’s double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Idlewild is two separate movies in one.
The setup for John Singleton’s latest urban drama is pure western-movie lore.