The sensibilities of Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott come together to fashion one of the cornerstone films of the early 1990s.
With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past.
Chiemi Karasawa’s documentary is remarkable for its candor, but it’s a brutal honesty that Elaine Stritch herself gladly offers.
Our ballot here will look much different from Oscar’s.
Baggage Claim, the other(ed) wide release this week, will likely be marginalized because of these “higher profile,” male-driven openers.
Enough can’t be said about how James Gandolfini comes so close to saving Nicole Holofcener’s latest articulation of white suburban anxieties.
You can’t help but feel pangs of heartache watching the trailer for Enough Said.
Around these parts, we’re pretty partial to Matt Zoller Seitz.
Geoffrey Fletcher’s film is a twisted, spirited exercise in stark juxtaposition.
A gorgeous disc that affords audiences a second chance to catch up with David Chase’s moving ode to dreams elapsed.
The film suggests what might happen if TBS and Bruce Springsteen were to collaborate on a sitcom set in hell.
The film confidently and forcefully storms onto DVD with an admirable A/V transfer, only hindered by a paltry gathering of extras.
The film may prove enduringly fascinating, if only in its function as an arch object of its era.
The film is overtly suspicious and critical of the new and only serviceably romantic about the old.
Another opening-night gala screening, another crapshoot.
Zero Dark Thirty is nothing if not a forthright, above-board, cards-on-the-table kind of film.
The film is simply the latest entry in an endless line of crime thrillers too concerned with looking cool.
Not Fade Away subsumes the viewer in the tidal pool of David Chase’s memories.
There’s no empathy in Haneke’s carefully composed frames, ruthlessly prolonged takes, and generally detached stance.
You really can’t miss the irony in the Killing Them Softly poster designs, as both of them are about as soft as a shell casing.