Under the Banner of Heaven ambitiously grapples with the struggle to attain personal agency in the crushing course of history.
There’s no attempt to hide that the film is pure fan service, a greatest-hits mashup of Spider-Man’s cinematic legacy.
tick, tick… BOOM! never quite resolves that tension between well-attended wake and intimate memoir.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye exists only to allow its performers to run in pyrotechnic circles around each other.
Tick, Tick…BOOM!, an adaptation of Rent creator Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical play, will hit the streaming service in the fall.
The film is an intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall, and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.
The film has the knowing swagger of something on the cutting edge but none of the self-awareness to realize it’s late to the party.
Even after the film (quite entertainingly) explains itself, it never feels like more than a howl of frustration and cynicism.
Today, A24 has released the trailer for David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to It Follows.
Breathe is an easily digestible replica of the truth, bathed in honeyed cinematography and sentimentalized adulation.
We feel involuntarily compelled to speculate on how Denzel Washington could edge out Casey Affleck at the last minute.
Martin Scorsese crafts a versatile, multifaceted work that encourages serious reflection and contemplation.
“I pray but I’m lost, am I just praying to silence?”
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge delivers action that’s at once gross, rousingly virtuosic, and implicitly endorsed by its messianistic hero.
Ramin Bahrani’s talent for orchestrating sequences of tightly wound tension is in full bloom here, as is his complementary knack for quieter grace notes.
Sony’s insistent to let fans have their webs and sling them too and the high-flying 4K Blu-ray does precisely that.
Marc Webb proves unwilling, or incapable, of making this unwieldy story feel like anything but a deluge of backstory.
So often is it rehashing moments already handled expertly by Raimi’s films that Amazing Spider-Man never takes flight.
This ought to be chapter three in a series of prediction entries no longer than the amount of time it takes the orchestra to cut off the acceptance speeches of the winners in the short film categories.
This year’s slate of contenders indicates voters are ready to see the men behind the monsters.