This adaptation gets straight to the heart of the material, which is basically two hours of stray cats introducing themselves.
An airport novel of a movie, Bill Condon’s The Good Liar is efficient and consumable, if a bit hollow.
It’s an unfussy, intimate chamber drama that’s fearless in confronting the attitudes of its exalted subject.
Bill Condon’s remake actually delivers a remarkably optimistic balm to a festering, existential wound.
The actor discusses how he finds a character’s DNA through the way that he moves.
It ignores the delights and hardships of becoming an artist in lieu of simply presenting the long-touted liberating effects of art.
45 Years is basically a showcase for Haigh’s finely tuned screenplay and the performances of its two leads.
Most affecting in its depiction of friendship, and the performances represent platonic male intimacy in convincing, often moving ways.
Ultimately, the time-traveling conceit feels like a shameless ploy to further expand the franchise’s narrative universe.
A once-precious franchise’s weakest installment, which forgets these adventures’ magic was never conjured by bells and whistles.
We spoke to the actor and director about their long-term friendship, and about the two plays at the Cort Theatre.
For all you geriatric mutants looking around for your glasses, McAvoy and Fassbender are shown within their colored Xs.
Rarely do you see a protagonist appear so miniscule on a major movie poster, especially one who’s part of a blockbuster franchise.
A top-shelf presentation of one of last year’s baggiest, most unnecessary films.
There’s more to An Unexpected Journey than self-conscious nostalgia and fan pandering.
While we can definitely welcome Jenna-Louise Coleman aboard Doctor Who, Clara remains, for both us and the Doctor, an enigma.
Each of these moments illustrates a slightly different shade of the films’ fluid realization of a complex visual, thematic, and emotional spectrum.
The film, still only clearing its throat, hints at a wellspring of emotional riches to come.
A swirling storm is the proper framing device for Oz: The Great and Powerful’s first poster, which heralds its film by tossing trademark elements into a kind of artful rinse cycle.
An insurmountable amount of extras comes second only to New Line’s stunning visual and audio transfer of Peter Jackson’s exhilarating and exhausting epic.