Whishaw discusses challenges of not playing subtext, acting everyday emotions, and more.
The film carries the almost exotic interest of its milieu as well as deeply personal overtones.
For better and worse, writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Women Talking is most noteworthy for its imagery.
Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film inadvertently confirms that Bond is best when the simpler, more savage pleasures prevail.
Surge’s camerawork may leave viewers feeling like they just stepped off of a merry-go-round.
Jessica Hausner confidently expresses a thorny and disturbing theme, though perhaps with too much confidence.
For all of its slavish devotion to Mary Poppins, the sequel doesn’t even seem to recognize its greatest attribute: its star.
Paddington 2 arrives on home video ready for canonization as a new family-friendly classic.
Paul King’s Paddington 2 profoundly believes in the harmonizing power of warmth, politeness, and the absurd.
A beautiful presentation of a film that merges the tropes of the 007 series with a startlingly expressive aesthetic.
The narrative is helplessly adrift, a yarn that extols vague grit and determination with no discernible through line.
One doesn’t doubt the filmmakers’ empathy for Lili even as one questions its sentimentality.
There’s much to admire here, from its symbolically sickly aesthetic to its clearly shot action sequences.
The film’s episodes and attitudes register with searing immediacy while feeling true to their time period.
As intelligent, often hilarious, and occasionally insightful as it is, it aslo shows a filmmaker’s style hardening into shtick.
The film is surprising for the way it finds a near-ideal balance between its childlike playfulness and displays of mature wisdom.
The drama over dinner comes in small analgesic portions, and the secrets feel canned and the dialogue is too pretty to be believable.
Lilting doesn’t have any momentum or any sense of ambiguity, once the setup has been established.
Wary as he may be about our chat turning too personal, his answers reveal more than he’s planned.
The film rehashes the same few superficial humanist/socialist platitudes over and over again, with such reliability as to nurture our complacency.