Every incident in the film is a time-biding maneuver, completely and unimaginatively untethered from logic.
A full realization of the very worst fears one could imagine when James Wan unexpectedly emerged from the torture-porn murk with its original, spiritedly directed predecessor.
The significant boost to the film’s image and sound quality alone makes an upgrade to Criterion’s Blu-ray a must.
Answers to Nothing is tasteless and out of touch right down to its foundation.
An engagingly unassuming presentation of an effective yet disappointingly derivative shocker.
Black Swan is maddening, uneven, often bonkers, but it’s also often strangely beautiful.
Let’s give James Wan a hand.
Part of the reason I’m drunk on Black Sawn while still struggling to identify its taste has something to do with the film’s hallucination-filled narrative.
Black Swan is Showgirls stripped bare of its camp affections, Suspiria with a pretense to realism, Repulsion for our J-horror-addled times.
The decidedly dark and uncomic Murder on the Orient Express is, as the Brits might say, bloody brilliant.
Jan Schütte integrates three short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer into an uneven meditation on aging, death and lust.
For all the misappropriated hatred spewed about the film back in 1988, it follows the Gospels with diligence and faith.
Philip Kaufman’s stirring epic reminds us that an equally important motivation for greatness is the fear of being merely second best.
The Right Stuff’s tarnished reputation can only benefit from Warner’s sparkling new two-disc special edition.
A flawed but intimate DVD presentation for Australia’s critically acclaimed Lantana.
Ray Lawrence’s Lantana is a multi-character relationship saga disguised as a bubbling thriller.