Throughout The Beekeeper, our hero’s actions remain curiously unexamined by the filmmakers.
Inland Empire retains its low-res, subterranean power on Criterion’s Blu-ray release.
Ridley Scott’s tale of greed and revenge practically begs for melodramatic excess.
The film could be taken as an intentional travesty of the superhero genre, if only it weren’t so tortuously tedious.
The series argues the ways injustice might persist, and in that sense, its alternate history doesn’t look so alien after all.
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.
When its tone slides firmly back into the murk, it’s hard not to see DC’s notion of heroism as borderline nihilistic.
It ends up with blurry action that often looks digitally faked and a fractious plot that’s stuck over-explaining itself.
The film is simultaneously exhilarating, gorgeous, and tedious, operating as a weird fusion of auteur project and craven franchise start-up.
The film’s notion of a caste system is crudely reductive in the manner of a routine future-shock thriller.
An origin story, apologia, and harbinger of a second expanded universe of overpopulated action bonanzas.
The film is a complication-smoothing take on Jesse Owens’s elegant riposte to Hitler’s racism at the 1936 Olympics.
Criterion’s new 2K Blu-ray adeptly demonstrates why the film is ready for its (redux) close-up.
Bille August’s film is a protracted, soporific trip into Portuguese history that would like to be a romantic thriller.
Robins’s 30-year career, with a new leading role season after season, is studded with indelible performances.
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A frothy mixture of costume drama and soap opera, Neil Jordan’s show brandishes moral outrage and a blunt understanding of politics.
The film trades entirely in falsely literate seriousness and maudlin high tragedy.
In terms of demographics, Dario Argento is clearly intended as a text for both newcomers and knowledgeable fans alike.