Bellocchio’s aesthetics reflect the conversation between past and present in imaginative ways.
Ray Davies seamlessly transitions to the role of director and shapes his artistry for a new format.
Celestine’s submission to an evil and violent man becomes an eloquent indictment of a nation’s anti-Semitism.
Despair and ecstasy erupt from the fabric of the film with a blistering, almost physical intensity.
The film’s visual style, aggressive editing, and unnecessary time jumps fail to add depth to its ludicrous plot and shrill characters.
The filmmakers sometimes hammer home their message about the messiness of human behavior a little too hard.
High Society feels more genuine when it approaches the ethos of François Ozon’s underrated Young and Beautiful.
The film leaves one with the impression of a badly used young beauty condemned to make her own way through the world while longing for love.
Larry Clark is in full-on zeitgeist mode with The Smell of Us.
Belluscone: A Sicilian Story plays like a mockumentary about contemporary Sicilian society.
Un Ange Passe works on a model of long, uninterrupted takes on the faces of its characters, subdued and wistful.
Schlock films tend to have a certain sort of free-associative, on-the-fly intensity, even if they’re ultimately unwatchable.
The drama remains appealingly off-kilter for the most part, but Me and You is not without familiar histrionics.
Intruders remains a consistently entertaining and surprising sophomore effort.
Flesh of My Flesh exposes the perilously thin line between the mysteriously elliptical and the merely undercooked.
Jeon Kyu-hwan’s The Weight often suggests a very sick joke that somehow concludes with a shaggy-dog variation of “and you think you got problems?”
Professional uncertainty sparks the lithe narrative of Hong’s latest wry relationship comedy.
Romantic idealism and environmental psychology become enmeshed, and indistinguishable, in the intimate Nights with Theodore.
Motorway takes an appropriately soft-shoe approach to one of the more endearing action-film premises in recent memory.
The film is a maddeningly underwritten thriller/domestic-drama hybrid.