The film spins a soapy yet dramatically inert and often tone-deaf yarn about societal rejection and female empowerment.
Rarely have Michael Bay’s frenzied stylistic tics been so effectively intertwined with the substance of one of his films.
The film’s masterful prologue writes a check that the remainder of this very long, very indulgent film labors mightily to cash.
None of director Steve McQueen’s prior features has explored its subtext with such depth.
The film concerns four women who take fate into their hands in the wake of their criminal husbands’ deaths, forging a future on their own terms.
Lin Oeding’s film thrives on both the beauty of its natural, snowbound surroundings and the brutal instincts of man.
Aaron Paul possesses an innate everyman quality that lends itself well to writer-director Zack Whedon’s film.
Looper injects the sci-fi actioneer with a much-needed jolt of moral consciousness.
The queer coupledom at the center of Any Day Now is one we don’t normally see at the movies.
John Sayles pointedly evokes America’s military intervention as an extension of the nation’s treatment of its own indigenous people.
John Sayles’s human mosaics have always sparked hope for the salvation of American independent film.
The film’s especially detailed vision of time and place deserves to be seen in high definition.
The film’s succinct, well-paced plot avoids narrative convention and cheap sentimentality.
A muddled vision, but one anchored by fiercely convicted performances by Viggo Mortensen and Robert Duvall.
The set pieces largely convey the same feelings as the novel’s, but screenwriter Joe Penhall’s adaptation has a patronizing way of spelling out their significance.
Given the lack of technical flair on display, saying this DVD transfer does justice to the material is hardly praise.
Hardly worth a double-dip, but No Country’s ambient horror will pin you to the floor and slice into your neck with a taut handcuff chain.
Our long national lousy-horror-remake nightmare has finally—or at least temporarily—ended.
This is an unfortunately slim DVD package for the best Oscar top-dog since Million Dollar Baby.
The Coens bring a touch of levity to their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s relentlessly bleak 2003 novel.