This outrageous ode to all things “psychedela” gets Arrow’s typically sumptuous packaging.
The Next Chapter is devoid of serious conflict, yet it hits with unexpected feeling.
Criterion has brought to vivid life the darkness of Pakula’s seminal detective thriller.
It’s said that casting is 90% of directing, and it seems to be 90% of the writing in Bill Holderman’s Book Club.
The film’s weird reformulation of the Electra complex is nothing short of a sexist fantasy of salvation.
As ever, writer-director Paolo Sorrentino ironically cuts the legs out from under his protagonists’ wistfulness with grotesquerie.
And the jury’s still very much out over whether Shawn Levy is an inept comedy director masquerading as an opportunistically dramatic one, or vice versa.
A sexily chaotic parody of entitlement becomes just another tale of a white dude learning that there are worse things in life than essentially having no problems.
With the film, Lee Daniels quietly pushes his talent for hashing out visceral, violent emotions into unexpected dramatic terrain.
The season provides a decent fix for your Aaron Sorkin cravings and (hopefully) signals greater things yet to come.
If you’ve followed the Up documentary series, you know that it catches up with a cross-section of Britishers every seven years.
Olive Films’s set compiles three of the director’s seldom seen late works.
The film is divided between a desire to present the elderly in all their still-kicking vividness and a tendency to indulge in cutesy old-people caricature.
Fall in love with Paramount’s splendid Blu-ray transfer of Barbarella, even though it’s lamentably light on extras.
Here, the town of Woodstock is a magical place where long-simmering familial differences can be dissolved in a vibe of good feelings
These shacks have giddily opened their doors to audiences through the years.
Film Socialisme is often simply beautiful to look at, full of inspired, elusive, and suggestive imagery.
Is it success or failure that Beautiful Darling is unable to dispel the cloud that still hangs over Candy?
This is a film that posits “I love you” as the quick-fix remedy for its characters’ myriad, deeply rooted grievances.
This interesting, respectful portrait of Vietnam protestors lacks a much-needed measure of dramatic nuance and friction.