The film does Nicholas Winton a disservice by reducing his heroics to the stuff of facts.
The relative grace of the action direction only underscores how disjointed the rest of the film is.
The film gets a gorgeous new UHD presentation that you can really sink your teeth into.
The film is an illustration of the transition from the ethical pliancy of youth to the moral discernment of adulthood.
Hugh Jackman imbues The Son with a tragic power that makes even Florian Zeller’s most manipulative excesses easier to tolerate.
Michael Cimino’s confused neo-noir Desperate Hours receives a solid but barebones Blu-ray from MVD.
Kino’s UHD upgrade of The Silence of the Lambs presents the film at theatrical-grade quality.
The Father approximates the dislocation of its main character’s mind with a frighteningly slippery ease.
The film may be a comparatively “straight” entry in Lynch’s filmography, but it’s nevertheless a rapturously beautiful and moving art object.
Brad Pitt winning here will seem like the stars are lining up given what went down when he was first nominated in 1995.
There isn’t anything in the bleeding-heart positions espoused by Jorge Bergoglio that complicates Pope Francis’s public persona.
Criterion superbly refurbishes one of the most disturbing and least conventional love affairs in the history of cinema.
Thor: Ragnarok is the flamboyantly roller-disco entry in an already uncomplicatedly cartoonish side franchise.
The sensory overload of Michael Bay’s hyperkinetic cinema is such that it eradicates any actual sense of place.
It’s difficult to begrudge a film that has the good sense to put so much stock in Ben Kingsley’s hammy theatrics.
The film joylessly coopts the hoariest stylistic tics and narrative tropes from your run-of-the-mill 1990s thriller.
The Dresser is a merely effective portrait of the pitfalls and pleasures of a working relationship.
For all the emphasis placed on the thick bonds among these men, it’s surprising how often they communicate solely through exposition.
Once the money shots of Aronofsky’s version recede, it becomes ever more clear that his intention is to tackle the capriciousness of Old Testament logic.
Superhero movies aren’t going anywhere, nor is their standard, on-to-the-next-fight structure, so it’s heartening to see a gem that grandly and amusingly fills in the blanks.