Bogdanovich’s affecting look at small-town Americana gets a terrific UHD upgrade.
The Exorcist still gets under the skin after 50 years.
Aronofsky’s influential hellride of a film gets a sturdy 4K upgrade and a few new extras that extol its technical merits.
When the film’s actors are given space to etch their characters’ feelings, they turn in strikingly naturalistic performances.
Noah Hawley treats his protagonist’s story as a somber tragedy that at times stoops to trashiness.
With a humanistic touch, Peter Livolsi depicts people who never feel that they’re better than anyone else by virtue of their beliefs.
Writer-director Susan Walter’s film is almost determined to disprove the causality of social phenomena.
The sledgehammer preachiness of Mark Pellington’s Nostalgia almost scans as a failed hipster joke.
Todd Solondz fails to configure the hand-offs of the dachshund in a narratively inventive manner.
Evocative performances and sporadically astute direction enliven a film that’s too often overstuffed with plodding, literal-minded humanism.
Less a sincerely kooky elegy to lost time than a slightly off-kilter acting out of familiar rom-com bona fides about missing out on life.
Christopher Nolan’s goal seems to be to take the humor and wildness out of imagination, to see invention in rigidly practical and scientific terms.
It takes the aesthetic premise of Louie, in which the world around its protagonist matches his passive, fatalistic outlook, to its logical extreme.
Parts four and five of “Elevator” devote nearly half their running times to extended digressions.
“Elevator Part 3” finds Louie displaying darker facets of his personality.
Louie offers a chance to reconnect with Louis C.K.’s roots as a more modest performer.
The cruelly obvious third act congeals the film as a wet-eyed monument to the Kevin Costner character’s particular brand of American manliness.
Warner celebrates the stalwart horror landmark’s anniversary with an impressive package.
Given dreadful material, no one in the cast does even passable work.
Its greatest act of public service is the outrageously comforting notion that honest and humane politicians might actually exist.