It’s as if director Poll and screenwriter Gustin Nash watched Rushmore on a loop and tried to make it palatable to the mall crowd.
For its rambunctious first half, Lasse Hallström’s The Hoax is a rip-roaring yarn.
Infamous has gotten nowhere near the level of acclaim as Capote, proving that victims of hype don’t come more transparent than AMPAS.
Infamous takes a more complex approach to exploring Truman Capote’s disintegration than Bennett Miller’s Capote.
The film does Truman Capote justice and makes a sharp case for the power and destructiveness of liberated feelings.
Strictly for fans of Sprint commercials.
The Weather Man disingenuously conveys the fickleness of day-to-day existence via a monsoon of profane, contrived moroseness.
Carroll Ballard’sDuma has a mythical, nurturing resonance.
The type of ineffective third-rate con job that simply turns the volume way up for explosions in order to elicit an audience’s jolted reaction.
There are a dozen ways this work could have adapted successfully with a little vision, but c’est la vie, one supposes.
If you’re a Harvey Pekar fan, do yourself a favor and buy this DVD.
Rudolph’s most accessible film in years is anchored by incredible performances by Campbell Scott and Hope Davis.
The film wants to pay homage to Harvey Pekar without resorting to a straightforward biographical narrative.
Alan Rudolph treats everyday suburban anxieties with great empathy, not cynicism.
New Line Home Entertainment has officially spoiled us with their DVD Infinifilm editions.
If Alexander Payne’s snide sense of humor went hand-in-hand with Election’s political context, here it condescends to the Midwest pastoral.
Most impressive here is the deft unraveling of the film’s conspiracy theory and the tongue-in-cheek approach to euthanasia.
The film solidifies Scott Hicks’s rank as one of Hollywood’s most visually evocative power-players.