The film matches stylistic experimentation with a multi-tiered narrative of equal ambition.
For a series meant to tackle thorny social issues and gender dynamics, Roar comes across as distressingly slight.
The final season fulfills the possibilities of the show’s concept, informing it with humanist fury.
Sony’s Blu-ray does right by the film’s aesthetic wonders and includes a plethora of kid- and adult-friendly extras that dig into the complexity of the animation.
With its fine-tuned comic timing and feeling of constant action, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is downright invigorating.
Director Jeff Tomsic’s debut feature film, Tag, is exactly the Terms of Endearment our era deserves.
Too much is at stake, leading to formulaic plot filler and exposition that snuff out the spark of the early scenes.
It’s content to be the sort of film parents can throw on an iPad to ensure 90 minutes’ worth of relative peace and quiet away from their antic children.
Joe Swanberg’s Win It All understands addicts in a fashion that’s unusual for American cinema.
The film feels most real, even at its most absurd, when focused on the idea of closure as a kind of fantasy.
Reminiscent of Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery, it utilizes a pulp conceit as a shorthand for the regrets that bubble up in a marriage.
Joe Swanberg’s latest, Digging for Fire, is, above all, a showcase for Jake Johnson’s affable qualities as an actor.
It can’t tell whether it wants to be junk food or not, lovingly poking fun at some Hollywood tropes while shamelessly indulging others.
The film is a quiet, tender triumph that leaves you feeling as if you’ve been embraced without you feeling had.
Swanberg continues to grow confidently into his status as one of our finest poets of not-quite-youthful confusion.
TV better than movies? Not really, but at least television will let you see Michael Douglas stroking Matt Damon’s leg hair.
The film’s small, improvisational skeleton struggles to meet the demands of the more ambitious story it’s trying to tell.
Prince Avalanche, a Judd Apatow-like bromance elevated to the realm of near-myth, is an extremely odd, deliberately jarring work.
The film teases out the possibilities and perils of time travel without embroiling itself in the confusion inherent to the subject.
If this show’s going to succeed, it’s going to have to figure out how to build a slightly more complex inner-life for its protagonist.