The film increasingly gives into the sentimental clichés of the genre that it gleefully mocks.
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It’s to Lawrence and Henry’s credit that what lingers is their characters’ uncertainty.
Like Vice before it, the film too often uses satire as a tool of castigation rather than as a means of truly taking on the status quo.
The film is an all-too-fitting whimper of a conclusion to a franchise that never remotely fulfilled its potential.
Red Sparrow never gives fateful or conspicuous weight to all the breadcrumbs that point toward its long game.
Last night during the Golden Globe Awards, 20th Century Fox premiered a new trailer for the spy thriller Red Sparrow.
The film is a riot of religious symbolism, of-the-moment socio-political valences, and references to Darren Aronofsky’s work.
Monogamy, Passengers suggests, is tantamount to existing in a world where nothing else matters outside of the bond you and your partner share.
The issue with X-Men: Apocalypse is that Bryan Singer suggests so many possible directions to go in and still chooses the least interesting one.
Brie Larson, in Room, fights back tooth and claw from the brink just as much as the frontrunner in the Oscar race for best actor.
Russell proposes that there may be no real barrier between the caustic worldview he wears and the sense of childlike wonder he sells.
For a film about the violent overthrow of the status quo, Mockingjay – Part 2 is terminally conventional.
The film can’t reconcile Ron Rash’s apocalyptic tenderness with its own eagerness to revel in romantic star allure.
As a metaphor for the way we respond to the media, the film succeeds most when it revels in ambiguity.
Ultimately, the time-traveling conceit feels like a shameless ploy to further expand the franchise’s narrative universe.
Comical media images of women exploding provided outlets for spectators to laugh off the hazardous politics of everyday domesticity.
As was recently reported by the hive of Oscarologists over at Gold Derby, American Hustle has history on its side when it comes to the acting races.
Believe it or not, we know exactly what’s going to happen at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.
So who else gets screwed?
In a year replete with great trash, American Hustle is the crown princess of the bunch.