The film folds narratives on top of narratives in a vain attempt to mask the fact that there’s nothing to read between its graceless lines.
Strange as it may sound, the absence of melodrama is the film’s greatest strength.
J.C. Chandor is able to mine potent workplace drama, and pluck tender nerves that are widespread among the current populace.
“Hakuna Matata” would mean never having to be subjected to The Lion King ever again, much less having Simba’s growing pains coming at your face in 3D.
In The Lion King, spectacle dominates meaning to frequently reductive effect.
The Borgias doesn’t want us to think that it’s only about kinky sex or disgusting violence.
Margin Call loves speechifying, but the film is far more assured when lingering in the silence of its morally compromised characters.
According to Chandor’s logic, most of these characters are blameless victims by the time Margin Call takes place.
The film at least partially makes up for its failings by not pulling punches on the lions’ story.
The film seems determined to sully the legacy of Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers’s original series.
The film could be summed up in one word that would surely stump its protagonist: “Lugubrious.”
Inland Empire is another excuse for Lynch heads not to leave their house.
The fantastical milieu of Eragon may be third-class Lord of the Rings, but its story is pure Star Wars.
Reflections and rhymes abound in David Lynch’s Inland Empire.
Where to begin? At the end, perhaps, with the word sweet, the film’s answer to Mulholland Drive’s silencio.
The film is so garishly colorful and cute that even rom-com neophytes will find its uninspired adherence to formula borderline-unbearable.
Orlando Bloom and the Brothers Scott have this week’s film and DVD market cornered.
Don’t miss the film for Al Pacino’s great scenery-chewing performance and bold expression of a great moral conflict.
Kingdom of Heaven ultimately turns out to be a film about holiness beset by a pedestrian spirit.
Mad TV fans will no what I’m talking about when I say: Viva Dorothy Lanier!