Weill’s subtle, masterful dramedy is one of American cinema’s great character studies.
Criterion gives one of the most compulsively rewatchable movies of the last generation its most fully satisfying home-video edition to date.
Kino’s Blu-ray preserves the hypnotic, oneiric beauty that undercuts the film’s chaotic violence.
Mascots’s rapid-fire gags result in a hit-or-miss pattern, ranging from the wickedly inspired to the overly broad.
Christopher Guest refurbishes the often tedious stunted-male coming-of-age scenario with his distinct, gently despairing, satiric stylings.
Give this Blu-ray ribbon for improved A/V quality. Otherwise, Warner supplies exactly the same extras package as before.
The original version of Little Shop of Horrors is finally allowed to run rampant over expectations and popular discretion, as intended.
Director Shawn Levy remains unable to convey the type of grand, awe-inspiring scope and wonder that his material requires.
A film of remarkable forwardness, honesty, and humor, built, like all fairy tales, around one message, summed up late in the script.
Lacking the commentaries and home-video footage that graced previous DVD releases, this pedestrian set hardly excites.
The disc’s image quality is so reprehensible it makes it impossible to enjoy Catherine O’Hara’s great performance.
In For Your Consideration, Catherine O’Hara masterfully delineates the stages of her character’s excitement over the awards buzz.
The most depressing season of the year officially begins in late November and carries over into the early part of the new year.
Catherine O’Hara is the rare comic who never plays scenes for cheap laughs, and amazingly bags every one.
With Mrs. Henderson Presents, Stephen Frears offers Judi Dench a Being Julia to call her own.
Funny stuff. That is, if you like the dry, incessant sound of crickets on summer evenings.
Joke-for-joke, it’s not that funny—but it’s almost poignant.