With scalpel-like precision, the film exposes the agonies of fathers, sons, and brothers.
Arrow’s 4K does right by this cyberthriller’s small but hardcore fanbase.
Guillermo del Toro reimagines an agonizing, still shocking noir as an exhibit in a wax museum.
The film is a muddle of clichés and unremarkable action sequences that bleed together into a cacophony.
Cacophony eventually takes over Wrath of Man in the tradition of many Guy Ritchie films, stranding most of the actors in the process.
Greenland is, for better and worse, the most subdued disaster movie that Gerard Butler has ever made.
There are enough left turns here to allow us to shake the impression that we’ve been to this rodeo before.
The show’s second season reveals the intricate intersections between personal and political neuroses.
Mindhunter understands that words are ultimately an extension of the role play that defines our lives.
“How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks?”
The film’s sense of nostalgia is ultimately a reflection of how little the film asks of its audience.
With Never Go Back, the Jack Reacher franchise is beginning to suggest NCIS remade on the big screen.
Sully presses the case that the complexity of the human condition distracts us from the pure dignity of a noble act.
It uses convention to its advantage through intriguing casting choices and effective allusions to film history.
Michael Mann’s camera elegantly collapses the spaces between bodies and objects without sacrificing spatial coherence.
Its saving grace are the moments when Owen sheds his old-dog exterior and justifiably barks at Clark in the wake of his hotheaded antics.
Where the show gets a leg up is in its editing, which splices between the main character’s aggressive training and his tranquil family life.
Sylvain White’s adaptation of The Losers is the second comic-book movie misfire of 2010 and hopefully the last.
Unless David Fincher ever decides to talk about Alien³, this 9-disc set is pretty definitive. Alien fans should buy it immediately.
Not only is Ripley personality-free (is the character jaded or is Sigourney Weaver simply bored?), so is the alien.