This is a rogues gallery that runs the gamut from clingy patient to schizo serviceman.
In places, McDonagh’s follow-up to In Bruges evokes Charlie Kaufmann’s more methodically thought-through structuralist exercises.
We’ve gathered up 15 films with highly memorable phone calls, which run the gamut from disarming to terrifying.
No, it’s not just you.
The annual flood of see-them-or-be-left-out titles will pummel your poor movie-buff planning like a surging tsunami.
The film is a redressing of Paul Verhoeven’s version, in sanitized, soulless textiles spun from the sort of endless CGI spool a $200 million budget can provide.
Some of cinema’s most awesome sights are those that envision our future.
If recent sci-fi film ads are any indication, all we are is pixels in the wind.
A forgettable gangster movie gets a pointedly indifferent Blu-ray treatment.
Christopher Plummer has earned this year’s “It’s time” with absolutely no resistance.
Worth picking up for the nerds who hope to be at the center of a vampire-hunting blood bath.
Equally indebted to Martin Scorsese, Guy Ritchie, and Giorgio Armani, London Boulevard represents the apotheosis of style over substance.
The film, despite some unexpected cultural observations and insights into its male protagonist’s sexual insecurities, is very much a product of our time.
On the frat-comedy tolerance scale, Horrible Bosses just about breaks even.
One major reason that Malick’s films are so divisive is that they’re so nakedly emotional, that he’s so blatantly aiming for the sublime.
Russell Boyd’s immersive cinematography is extraordinary, but his images rarely get to speak for themselves.
His is a cinema populated with men who wince as they unload the barrels of their mouths.
For a film that purports to show the triumph of man over nature, this crew seems an unlikely and markedly uninteresting lot.
This fairy tale is fraught with existential questioning, regardless of whether it has a “happily ever after” or not.
The film is a galumphing bacchanal of illusionist clutter that’s frequently unwieldy but rarely less than deeply felt.