Maria Schrader’s film is crushed under the weight of its own self-importance.
Michael Mann’s moody crime classic gets a definitive release in the UHD format.
Even apologists for deep-seated perversity will have a tough time justifying long stretches of the latest episode.
Writer-director Charles Martin Smith’s tin ear for dialogue and contrived symbolism is as unmistakable as his enormous heart.
The film’s so preoccupied with being “inspirational” that it disastrously fails to evoke the allure of rock ‘n’ roll when it represented an erosion of racial and sexual barriers.
Neil Burger’s film transcends the déjà vu of its borrowed trappings but ironically sacrifices all momentum in favor of a long series of physical tests.
The film spends its first act establishing a flimsy emotional groundwork before gleefully taking a sledgehammer to it just seconds into act two.
Gregory Poirier’s Missing is little more than a one-line elevator pitch with some fancy choreography and flashy scenery.
harles Martin Smith’s Dolphin Tale is as squishy as the ocean is deep.
The stories aren’t just a voyeuristic peek at famous people’s lives and ancestries, but a look inside the human heart.
A PSA masquerading as an actual drama, Helen takes great pains to depict severe depression as not an emotional condition, but an illness.
It’s plain to see why 20th Century Fox dumped the film in January.
Wayne Kramer goes the Paul Haggis route with Crossing Over.
They doubted me, but then they saw, and then they believed.
With Bug, William Friedkin uses light, color, and sound to evoke subjective experience.
The film’s cozy depiction of the rustic South lacks the visual panache that might have elevated the tale above the mundane.
The Iliad of modern crime movies is given absolute platinum service by Warner Home Video.
The protagonists of Mann’s universe have a sense of direction and an unyielding devotion to their chosen profession.
Twisted is a thriller only a misogynist could love.
Twisted is too afraid to intimately probe the sticky relationship between sex and violence.