The film awkwardly pitches itself between a somber drama and antic melodrama.
The film is a sensitive, dewy-eyed romance about two adults in the process of becoming.
William Oldroyd’s film is a deliciously a pulpy phantasmagoria of fear and desire.
The fatal flaw of the film is that it genuinely believes in the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
The film is an illustration of the transition from the ethical pliancy of youth to the moral discernment of adulthood.
Had the filmmakers taken a more easygoing approach, Locked Down might have landed in the realm of The Thomas Crown Affair.
This is a sleeker-looking vehicle that’s eager to be scary but not comfortable being ugly.
Haynes’s film intermittently hits upon a few original ways of representing its ripped-from-the-headlines mandate.
The show’s fundamental goal isn’t to present love that’s unique to the current moment, but to expose the universality of its stories.
Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson admirably take a lot of big swings, but they rarely pay off.
The film’s twist ending exists only to retroactively justify writer-director Steven Knight’s feeble stylistic choices.
Part of the pleasure of Gary Ross’s film lies in watching it turn a typically male-dominated genre on its head.
This neurotic psychodrama in monster-movie clothing is accorded a deservedly top-notch A/V presentation.
Audiences who step into Colossal unaware of where Nacho Vigalondo is taking them will be nothing if not surprised.
Audiences who step into Colossal unaware of where Nacho Vigalondo is taking them will be nothing if not surprised.
The film doesn’t clear the CGI cobwebs or successfully anchor any of its new events with emotional heft.
Nancy Meyers is committed to her signature of giving her female protagonists their cake and letting them eat it too.
This snapshot of catharsis follows a familiar trajectory, but it refreshingly resists elevating the characters’ relationship to the level of grandiose.
Christopher Nolan’s goal seems to be to take the humor and wildness out of imagination, to see invention in rigidly practical and scientific terms.
The movie has less actual nutritional value than 10 bowls of crushed Froot Loops dust.