The Chair too often downplays its potentially thorny political subject matter.
Wes Anderson’s film is an often fascinating, wondrous exercise in complex narration and visual composition.
Weill’s subtle, masterful dramedy is one of American cinema’s great character studies.
This definitive package will be essential for both fans of the film and scholars interested in the transition of Old Hollywood to New.
The innate imperfection of canine hair gives Wes Anderson’s lovingly crafted dioramas the illusion of life.
In terms of scale and narrative ingenuity, Wormwood is as staggering as any Errol Morris film before it.
The film is the first masterpiece of what would become an increasingly technocratic ’80s movie-house takeover.
“Maybe I don’t want to meet someone who shares my interests. I hate my interests.” Steve Buscemi speaks for us all.
Criterion stalwartly continues to ensure that one of America’s finest directors is properly recognized for the master artist that he’s become.
George Clooney’s film boils a big, messy maelstrom of theft and uncertainty down to a digestible, faintly appetizing mush.
The opening pair of episodes, both directed by Lena Dunham, pointedly denies the titular foursome of much of anything resembling sympathy.
Give this Blu-ray ribbon for improved A/V quality. Otherwise, Warner supplies exactly the same extras package as before.
The transfer shows up the seemingly endless visual and auditory pleasures of Anderson’s latest masterpiece.
Russell’s kinetic head trip about the dangers of scientific self-indulgence comes to high definition in a forgettable package.
In his understanding of both the pleasures and limits of fancy, Anderson generously leaves his characters with room to live.
The film is an intensification of the rigorous aesthetic preoccupations and occasionally precious thematic concerns that have long marked Anderson’s films.
The icy fatalism of film noir is turned to slush by Thin Ice.
Here, the writers are forced to rely on tricks to create a cohesive storyline outside of the web-chat format.
The Howl DVD is a strong, affectionate transfer of a well-crafted film that never quite comes together.
Like the counterculture icon that penned the poem that serves as the title to Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s film, Howl is one odd bird.