To confer a bit of artsy edginess, Trier peppers this slickly shot, scripted-to-death family drama with flashbacks, dream sequences, and what-if scenes.
Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves reveals the dark core contained within an actor’s nice-guy neuroticism.
The movie has less actual nutritional value than 10 bowls of crushed Froot Loops dust.
Whatever the film’s interest may be in the marginalized, writer-director Richard Ayoade never alludes to what would even be worth fighting for in this nightmarish industrial landscape.
Xavier Dolan reigns in his often flagrant use of formalism without sacrificing his confidence as a filmmaker.
There were Eisenbergs, Gyllenhaals, and doppelganger-centered film adaptations galore at Toronto.
There’s nothing behind all this sturm und drang but a lineup of insubstantial ciphers.
It would have been nice if the film had surrendered to its lunacy more blatantly, more carelessly.
Why Stop Now feels more empty and underdeveloped than overstuffed.
The farce is either laid on with a trowel or reeks of sour misogyny.
Free Samples is an angry indie that favors hollow ridicule over credibility.
With Labor Day, summer vacations, and weekend getaways behind us, it’s time again to tune into the city’s arts and culture vibe.
30 Minutes or Less is a proudly stupid action comedy that’s awfully lethargic for all its slam-bang propulsion.
Considering the two codependent main characters, Rio depends on the fish-out-of-water construct like no other recent animated film.
This ought to be chapter three in a series of prediction entries no longer than the amount of time it takes the orchestra to cut off the acceptance speeches of the winners in the short film categories.
We’re picking this one out of a hat, folks.
This elegantly and scrupulously produced Blu-ray essentially serves as an all-in-one FYC campaign for Fincher’s film.
I wonder if Zuckerburg likes Thai food.
The Social Network is at once a snapshot of a particular era and a universal story about trying to fit in.
It’s getting harder for fictional characters to do something so outrageous that we can’t empathize with them.