Though its lugubrious and plodding narrative spins its wheels ahead of someone coming along to fill T’Challa’s shoes, Wakanda Forever does stand out for its depictions of grief.
Criterion’s stacked release helps make the case that the film is more than just an interesting curio in Jarmusch’s canon.
In French Exit’s best passages, sadness and curt, resonant comedy exist side by side unceremoniously.
The film, as Arrow’s excellent assemblage of features proves, is rewarded by post-viewing conversation.
This is a beautiful refurbishing of one of Jarmusch’s more uneven films, which is still a must-see for a handful of beautiful performances.
There’s a narrative lopsidedness to Black Panther that sharply undercuts Killmonger’s emotional journey.
Grasshopper Film’s shimmering 2K restoration is a revelatory treatment of this great film.
Throughout, Jim Jarmusch playfully blurs the line between driver/passenger, servant/customer, and native/immigrant.
One may feel mildly insulted by the presumptuous attitude the film seems to choose as it sends us on our way.
Beautiful, poetic, and hard-hitting without the use of excessive force and deeply layered with evolving and regional nuances of feminine experience.
Oka! may work best simply as an homage to sound recording.
White Material is the suffocating smoke of colonialist ideology billowing up into the air.
White Material strikes the senses as much as Claire Denis’s great films, but its lack of mystery ultimately keeps it from lingering like them.
It’s not the music, it’s the refrains that got me.
The film is an obtuse stylistic immersion from the typically on-point and perceptive Jim Jarmusch.
Without its weirdo visual flourishes, The Guitar would be completely reprehensible.
If the film is anything, it’s a gorgeous eyesore, and the image on the disc does justice to Schnabel’s over-direction.
The film is a textbook example of a director prizing himself over his material.
Finally, a Bond adventure one can enjoy without apology.
The film is an awkward mix of comedy, romance, and out-there fantasy.