The underlying, redundant, and underwhelming theme of the film is the pursuit of family unity at all costs.
Most affecting in its depiction of friendship, and the performances represent platonic male intimacy in convincing, often moving ways.
If you’ve followed the Up documentary series, you know that it catches up with a cross-section of Britishers every seven years.
Anyone who’s worked with senior citizens will tell you how vital music is to them, but Quartet fails to capture that vitality.
The old ways have been literally silenced, with no thought as to why they existed in the first place.
It’s not entirely clear why this movie even exists, except maybe to resuscitate Jack Black’s career.
In cinema as in life, the devotion inspired by cults can—like the Jonestown thirst for Kool-Aid—border on lunacy.
If you eliminate almost all of the sci-fi elements, you’re left with The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Fido never goes anywhere interesting or particularly funny with its sketch-comedy premise.
Fuck mainly serves as the latest example of the atrocious devolution of mainstream documentary filmmaking.
Open Season is an ideal film for small tykes still undergoing potty training.
The film plays it straight and boring, chasing its predecessor’s tail of mediocrity.
It’s hard to imagine a documentary more foul-mouthed—or jaw-droppingly, side-splittingly hilarious—than The Aristocrats.
Girlfriend talks as if she’s constantly burning her bras but she can’t tell when some scumbag is trying to shamelessly get into her panties.
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?
Harvey Weinstein may suck, but according to Overnight, Troy Duffy sucks harder.
The audio and video transfer is so good that you may forget just how offensive the film is.
The film is content to be a squishy, serious-minded lesson about embracing one’s heritage and cherishing the virtues of valor and respect.
When it comes to the cinematic translation of his pulpy adventures, a little dash of “unlikeliness” never hurts.
What Is Cletis Tout? is not some cheap Pulp Fiction knock-off, just fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references.