This release of The Piano makes for yet another stunner in Criterion’s expanding 4K UHD catalog.
Criterion outfits Cronenberg’s utterly one-of-kind erotic techno-fable with a mint transfer and a few pertinent archival extras.
Incredibles 2 primarily concerns male anxiety about women taking over traditionally masculine roles.
Underneath its fashionable self-consciousness, Here and Now is another series about rich and attractive people.
Katherine Dieckmann’s film is beholden to a studiously weird narrative that’s governed by formula screenwriting.
The film is always at least gut-rumbling and keeps its humor in situations that are morose and awkward.
Terrence Malick’s Song to Song is about floating along on currents of uncertain desire and excitement.
The film is simultaneously exhilarating, gorgeous, and tedious, operating as a weird fusion of auteur project and craven franchise start-up.
An origin story, apologia, and harbinger of a second expanded universe of overpopulated action bonanzas.
David Gordon Green stages even fleeting tonal palate cleansers with a self-consciousness that parallels Al Pacino’s acting.
Manglehorn is too talky by half, especially when two or even three scenes are superimposed on one another.
Theodore Melfi’s debut feature, St. Vincent, is a heartwarmer that never insults.
The film smartly avoids the sort of cynical hijinks that characterize the majority of Vegas-set flicks, though it can’t come up with anything more compelling to place in its stead.
Would The Burning have been a better movie without the involvement of Bob and Harvey Weinstein? Wouldn’t any movie?
The great expanse of time and episodic nature that partially defines the series format allows Campion to work at once ambitiously and confidently.
The means by which the film provides the facts is its weakest aspect, but it’s more a narrative snafu than a half-assed political statement.
The stunning 1080p transfer makes a case for repeat viewings on its aesthetic heft alone.
The conflict between natural talent and learned and practiced ability shapes the heart of The Incredibles.
Everything you could want to know about creating an ambitious, well-crafted rom-com in a mass-media whirlwind setting is supplied here.
A bad movie is worst when you can sense the meaningful intentions of its creators.