The overarching plot of the film is pretty boilerplate, but the fine details count for a lot.
Criterion has outfitted Mira Nair’s sophomore feature with an exquisite new transfer and a superb slate of extras.
What’s absent here is the murderous lust for power that dovetails with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s lust for each other.
Though it feels impersonal, The Little Things nevertheless has an obsessive pull.
The film envisions Denzel Washington’s Robert McCall as a hero in absolute concord with the world of his own fiction.
Gary Oldman’s assured win over the two main critics’ favorites, Timothée Chalamet and Daniel Kaluuya, represents an unabashed retrenchment that’s entirely off brand in this Oscar year.
Throughout Dan Gilroy’s film, a promising character study is smothered beneath lazy genre machinations.
A rare bad performance from Denzel Washington sinks writer-director Dan Gilroy’s follow-up to Nightcrawler.
We feel involuntarily compelled to speculate on how Denzel Washington could edge out Casey Affleck at the last minute.
Danzel Washington honors the manna of Fences’s being: the micro of romantic longing, self-loathing, and nostalgia.
The film never surrenders to the abandon of its action, and as such never feels like it shifts out of first gear.
This neglected gem adds yet another layer to noir’s longstanding preoccupations with black and white.
The Equalizer should build up to a moderately engaging battle of wits, but the script has little interest in wit and no capacity for psychology.
Perhaps it’s fortunate for Denzel Washington’s career that the film was both a commercial and financial failure.
A collection of comments about winning, losing, perseverance, discipline, violence, compassion, exploitation, responsibility, and ambition.
Viewer/character solidarity only holds up for so long, and the film falls hard into twisty, nonsense territory, skipping over its stronger themes in the process.
The cinema, as a form of popular culture has, more or less, always been a democratic medium, contingent on viewers showing up in support.
The randy I’m So Excited got us thinking of other films that take to the skies
More than in any of the other categories it’s nominated in, the unreal fall from grace suffered by Zero Dark Thirty will be particularly palpable when it inevitably loses here.
The larger-than-life aura that Daniel Day-Lewis breathes into the characters he portrays seems also to have in recent years extended to the actor himself.