The film again proves that Lanthimos is a skilled director of blunt strangeness and surreality.
This is a theatrical story told in a purposefully and self-consciously theatrical manner.
Rather than feeling grounded in its everyday struggles, Entergalactic comes across more like a black hole of imagination.
Whatever satire of white elite society is intended by The Forgiven has been blunted by monotony.
At its best, the film’s romance comes alive through some well-wrought dialogue that rarely ventures into faux-period eloquence.
The film is a self-consciously gimmicky buddy flick that’s informed with jolts of anguish and gallows humor.
Shot through with darkly existentialist humor, the film finds Aubrey Plaza throwing a gauntlet to filmmakers who have typecast her in the past.
Brandon Cronenberg’s film is obsessed with tensions between mind and body and old and new technologies.
Hulu’s adaptation of Joseph Heller’s novel invites our laughter, contemplation, and shock in equal measure.
If Piercing is mildly disappointing, it’s because it doesn’t go far enough.
Tyrel viscerally cuts to the everyday heart of living in a fraught cultural mixing pot.
Natalie Portman plays the older Celeste like a car revving in first gear, deafeningly loud but scarcely moving.
The film’s satisfyingly tactile action set pieces serve to hammer home just how perilous the space race really was.
The film doesn’t have much of a point, as its characters are reductive variables in an inevitable equation of carnage.
The Sinner recedes from a grisly opening into an examination of one woman’s complicated history.
How is it that a film so beholden to dull, unnecessary exposition can be so eager to avoid explaining itself?
The episode belongs to Marnie, who breaks the seal on the superficially successful but spiritually unfulfilling life she’s clung to up until now.
Its feminist perspective checkmates the misogyny and machismo that too often mar films set in combat zones.
The actors chew the lurid, shopworn material up to bits, savoring it like a Royale with cheese.
Low-key but engaged, the actor talked about his work and his interest in what makes people tick with unpretentious sincerity.