The film may be the first to find a sweet spot between Dumb and Dumber and a nature doc.
Eisenberg’s film doesn’t embraces easy answers or platitudes.
The film is impressive for how it holds its protagonist’s view of the world separate from its own.
Eisenberg discusses the relationship between his feature directorial debut and Fleishman Is in Trouble and his Oscar-nominated turn as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network.
For better and worse, Jesse Eisenberg’s satire hits its targets dead on.
The film could be taken as an intentional travesty of the superhero genre, if only it weren’t so tortuously tedious.
This a parable about adulthood boasts deeply cynical takes on home, community, and childrearing.
The film is an old-fashioned and straightforward tale of brave opposition to the Nazi occupation of France.
Behind the film’s self-awareness and irony is a hollow emotional core.
The dojo of this film is the ultimate unsafe space, a place of deadpan irony and appalling brutality.
Throughout, the film can’t decide what attitude to strike toward its characters’ evident greed.
When its tone slides firmly back into the murk, it’s hard not to see DC’s notion of heroism as borderline nihilistic.
Noah Baumbach’s breakthrough still looks like his sharpest, most personally inflected work.
The film is simultaneously exhilarating, gorgeous, and tedious, operating as a weird fusion of auteur project and craven franchise start-up.
It potently clarifies how our lives are spent distracted from matters of the closest personal significance.
The sheer amount of people and incident indifferently presented throughout suggests only an obligation to quota-filling.
Joachim Trier’s film is a parable that takes depression seriously as a condition and a state of being.
An origin story, apologia, and harbinger of a second expanded universe of overpopulated action bonanzas.
A Bourne movie turned just askew enough to be funny, Nima Nourizadeh’s American Ultra trains a bemused eye on a trope ripe for a ribbing.
It does well in using dialogue to shape its escalating tête-à-tête, but the filmmaking is too fuzzy to expand on those ideas.