The film ultimately doesn’t discover very much unexplored thematic space of its own.
Throughout Maestro, Bradley Cooper mostly relegates Bernstein’s art to the sidelines.
Maria Schrader’s film is crushed under the weight of its own self-importance.
This powder keg of a film gets an uneven A/V presentation but a confident and enlightening commentary track from Fennell.
The Dig clearly relishes in having found so many fascinating real people arriving at one place at once.
The film’s empowerment fantasy of a woman who steamrolls male egos is as stylish and fun as its portrait of gender relations is dire.
Dano’s contemplative period piece receives a wonderful Blu-ray transfer and handful of illuminating extras.
Wildlife, a film about the destruction and rebuilding of self-esteem and the self, is utterly devoid of ego.
Dee Rees’s film scrutinizes how World War II laid bare the unsustainable hypocrisy in America’s bigoted divisions.
Criterion’s heavyweight disc is a major release for the label that may pass through the market square without much fanfare.
The film’s episodes and attitudes register with searing immediacy while feeling true to their time period.
The lack of real analysis or consideration leaves this perilously close to a Goldilocks-style depiction of privileged female indecision.
“Young and Beautiful” might be the very best thing to have emerged from Luhrmann’s epic undertaking.
On the visual front, it seems highly unlikely that Bruno Delbonnel will be passed over in the Cinematography field.
Llewyn Davis is arguably the most vivid and complex character the Coens have dreamed up since Marge Gunderson.
Like the folk scene it immerses us in, Inside Llewyn Davis is intrigued by authenticity.
The film has enough latent charm and unique personality to standout amid a career of wild diversions.
Graciously and appropriately, Luhrmann eventually lets his gung-ho predilections simmer down.
Decadent prose is transformed into a decadent filmmaking style that defies modesty in the most brutal sense.
It ain’t the nostalgia the repeat offenders at Concept Arts were going for.