David Gordon Green’s newest attempt to raise franchise hell results in a disjointed mess.
For a while, the film feels more like a supervillain origin story than a traditional slasher.
Straining to be a YA spin on Trouble Every Day, Bones and All barely eclipses Twilight.
Despite this clever setup, Tom Gormican’s film isn’t the self-reflexive skewering of Hollywood that one might expect.
As far as improvements go, Michael Myers’s revitalized brutality is arguably the only successful one that Halloween Kills makes.
There’s barely a single scare in this Halloween that isn’t undermined by some forced bit of funniness,
Director David Gordon Green’s Stronger offers up an unassuming portrait of wounded love and solitude.
The film’s understanding of the brittleness that begets the “traditions” of frat culture is altogether shallow.
The film only serves to validate George Clooney’s devotion to showmanship as Hollywood’s current reigning poster boy for blue-state morality.
David Gordon Green stages even fleeting tonal palate cleansers with a self-consciousness that parallels Al Pacino’s acting.
Manglehorn is too talky by half, especially when two or even three scenes are superimposed on one another.
Theodore Melfi’s debut feature, St. Vincent, is a heartwarmer that never insults.
Joe is a fascinating, irresolvable mixture of tender, despairing blue-collar pathos, found faces, and macho genre hot air.
David Gordon Green finds a balance between symbolism and realism in his storytelling that allows the film to be many things at once.
The new picture quality makes George Washington, Green’s first and best film, look as if it came directly from myth.
Rich Hill is poverty porn, and this isn’t simply because the film examines poverty.
With his wry latest, David Gordon Green consolidates the bromantic interplay of Pineapple Express and the erstwhile elliptical lyricism of George Washington.
Prince Avalanche, a Judd Apatow-like bromance elevated to the realm of near-myth, is an extremely odd, deliberately jarring work.
The unfunny flies fast and furious in Fox’s unremarkable Blu-ray presentation of David Gordon Green’s latest letdown.
Beasts of the Southern Wild is a beautiful fairy tale about survivor’s guilt.