With its silvery sheen and sexy lure of celebrity actors being naughty, the film recalls the decadent, self-consciously chic art it parodies.
Throughout Dan Gilroy’s film, a promising character study is smothered beneath lazy genre machinations.
Toronto International Film Festival 2017: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool and Roman J. Israel, Esq.
A rare bad performance from Denzel Washington sinks writer-director Dan Gilroy’s follow-up to Nightcrawler.
Every creature here that’s intended to burrow into our nightmares is less a wonder of imagination than of size.
In what’s become an annual tradition, last weekend’s Writers Guild Awards weren’t much of a trial heat for the Oscars.
Dan Gilroy’s directorial debut only offers a familiar vision of today’s newsman and producers as misery peddlers, and callow ratings slaves bordering on the monstrous.
Writer-director Dan Gilroy does a fantastic job at first of drawing out his protagonist’s eccentricities.
The film comes to Blu-ray armed with a superb A/V transfer and a solid packing of extras from Universal.
This is an unbelievably silly movie, with a script that must eventually come to terms with the fact that it’s just another globetrotting spy caper.
The Fall is a wearying nosedive through a self-indulgent imagination.
Substitute The Devil’s Advocate’s satanic legal scheming with unethical sports gambling practices and you’ve got Two for the Money.