The film only give voice to the politics informing the drama in spare moments of suspense.
The elegantly underplayed performances ensure that the film never succumbs to melodrama.
To the film’s credit, Savage imbues the proceedings with a good deal of visual ingenuity.
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Call Jane is curiously staid and low-wattage story where, too often, things work out just fine for its characters.
Throughout, J Blakeson crafts sharp, curt dialogue that makes a fashion statement out of contempt.
The film is ultimately too tidy to embrace anything truly startling or unexpected, either stylistically or narratively.
Perhaps as a result of her attempting to avoid all matter of clichés, not just of genre, Amy Seimetz revels in vagueness.
Birds of Prey feels at times less like its own story and more like a trailer for what’s coming next.
Live by Night adds a new wrinkle to the well-traveled terrain of the mafia film: the woke gangster.
David Gordon Green stages even fleeting tonal palate cleansers with a self-consciousness that parallels Al Pacino’s acting.
Chris Messina is a little too indifferent to the machinations of the plot, but the film is a romantic daydream that casts a lovely spell.
Manglehorn is too talky by half, especially when two or even three scenes are superimposed on one another.
The Daniel Barnz film interestingly insists on the audience judging its main character, which places us in a potentially uneasy position.
The season provides a decent fix for your Aaron Sorkin cravings and (hopefully) signals greater things yet to come.
Fairhaven at least resists the emotional bombast of films such as The Big Chill.
The twisted minds at Lionsgate really outdid themselves with the poaster for What to Expect When You’re Expecting.
At the end you may wonder why you just paid to watch two yuppies bicker when you could’ve seen that at the nearest P.F. Chang’s for free.
The film emerged from Toronto as virtually every pundit’s Best Picture frontrunner.
The Mindy Project is upfront about its flimsy vanity, but that doesn’t make it any better.