Mike Flanagan reimagines Poe’s oeuvre as a nimble, tonally capacious collection of fables.
This is one Criterion’s most stacked one-disc Blu-ray releases of the year.
No American film since Zodiac has exhibited such a love for the way information travels than The Post.
Peter Landesman’s film is a kind of hagiography, and it leans toward whitewashing its subject’s legacy.
Mike Flanagan’s Gerald’s Game is the rare Stephen King adaptation to be undone by the story itself.
Stephen Gaghan’s Gold finds no treasure of gleaming originality in its crushingly clichéd anti-capitalist parable.
The film’s weird reformulation of the Electra complex is nothing short of a sexist fantasy of salvation.
It can’t develop themes because it’s too busy disseminating information, and this extends to its main characters.
Considering that “Person to Person” is the series finale of Mad Men, it’s best to start with its final images.
Andrew Niccol has awkwardly shoehorned in broad talking points from various sides of the drone controversy.
Last night’s episode of Mad Men is all about life as a series of entrances and exits.
Niccol has awkwardly shoehorned in broad talking points from various sides of the drone controversy.
The writers also confront the dangers of not staying in the present.
The film has the plot of an intensely lurid thriller, but Atom Egoyan can’t bring himself to face that and actively tend to the story.
The Captive plays like the overeager idiot brother to Egoyan’s superior The Sweet Hereafter.
Atom Egoyan’s hypocritical prestige-movie skittishness is more offensive than ordinary sensationalism.
Shana Feste’s film seems blissfully unaware that great fights require truly substantial conflicts.
the black void of death is the darkness du jour in Abrams’s bracingly revisionist melodramedy.
The clarity and inventiveness of J.J. Abrams’s direction keeps the drama and the action constantly percolating.
It’s a testament to Bruce Greenwood’s acting that Adan never becomes entirely as insufferable as the words that come out of his mouth.