Once the film turns into a paranoid home-invasion thriller, there’s no ambiguity left to the tale.
The film finds its purpose most pointedly when it zeroes in on the unambiguous relationship between Holiday and “Strange Fruit.”
Chandor turns an intensely physical narrative into another of his inadvertently generic studies of procedure.
Dee Rees’s film scrutinizes how World War II laid bare the unsustainable hypocrisy in America’s bigoted divisions.
Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk does astounding work animating the mind of its young soldier.
Criterion’s heavyweight disc is a major release for the label that may pass through the market square without much fanfare.
The film offers audiences a bundle of fetishes dressed up as an existentialist thriller about the class system.
Joe Wright’s film could fuel an entire series of incredulous episodes of the How Did This Get Made? podcast.
The film’s chief misstep is taking its title too literally, and ultimately depicting Louie as an indestructible, and thus largely inhuman, superhero.
Garrett Hedlund’s performance throbs with an anguish that’s far more honest than the sentimental euthanasia subplot at the center of the film.
Llewyn Davis is arguably the most vivid and complex character the Coens have dreamed up since Marge Gunderson.
The film’s pictorial tone is one of asphalt-crunching, dawn-breaking, icicle-defrosting meditativeness.
This list is likely the only one to put Nicole Kidman in the company of Lori Loughlin.
Call it a guilty pleasure, if you must, but TRON: Legacy is the sort of spectacle that makes people go to the movies and it looks spectacular on Blu-ray.
This TRON reboot is a fleet, fantastic-looking bit of old code.
James Wan continues to beat us over the head, though this time he has the decency to do so with some semblance of human emotion.
The setup for John Singleton’s latest urban drama is pure western-movie lore.
The film is an unexceptional depiction of seizing the moment.