Weird accordingly—or is it accordion-gly?—takes everything to new heights of glorious ridiculousness.
The Lost City is proof that star power and chemistry can only take a film with a mediocre script so far.
Writer-director Jason Lei Howden’s humor might have been tolerable if his film was at least reasonably imaginative.
The film’s flashbacks, which are either too clipped or excessively scored, effectively step on the actors’ toes.
While the scares don’t quite work, Jungle revels in a different aspect of horror-thrillers: the gross-out.
The film demonstrates the fatal proximity and deceptive distance that can exist between the words and deeds of extremists.
Even as it invites snarky ridicule, Swiss Army Man dares you to buy into its singular earnestness.
The sheer amount of people and incident indifferently presented throughout suggests only an obligation to quota-filling.
Swiss Army Man quickly established its cult-movie bona fides at this year’s Sundance, where it won the festival’s directing prize.
Its litany of human freaks and animal monstrosities are meant to distract from the superficiality of its psychological and intellectual concerns.
For a story so unconventional, it’s executed without director Alexandre Aja’s typical commitment to anarchic awe.
Right up to its simplistic ending, the film is pleased to regurgitate the contrived tropes of the genre without ever honestly addressing the ethics of romantic boundaries.
Radcliffe revealed himself to be charming and polite as he talked seriously about his work on Kill Your Darlings.
An overmatched star and a scarcity of eccentricity sink this hip-lit origin story from director John Krokidas.
The film is a smartly written, deeply engaging portrait of a movement just about to begin.
Witches, wives, and even Whoopi made this list of women who sport only the darkest uniforms.
The film displays a higher regard for the material makeup of gruesome-looking dolls than it does for the psychological turmoil of its characters.
David Yates seems to want the film to capture the excitement of the moment but also to strike up nostalgia for all that has gone before.
Narrative structure is one of the steadiest elements of the Harry Potter films.
Its sacrifice of narrative cohesion in favor of pushing aesthetic and expressive boundaries has rubbed some fans the wrong way.