Michael Douglas’s star turn in the sour dramedy Solitary Man heralds the return of that era’s skeeviest big-screen persona.
Kevin Asch so thoroughly enmeshes one in his Hasidic Brooklyn milieu that his film initially counterbalances its plot’s banality by focusing on particulars.
The film is so insistently irritating and so consistently lacking in laughs that its alleged comedy quickly becomes an exercise in exhaustion.
Call it Land of the Dull.
It’s no Superbad, but Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart’s sterling chemistry make Adventureland worthwhile.
Adventureland is a sweet-hearted study of romance among college grads coping with their new independence in the summer of 1987.
Coming off helming the Judd Apatow-produced smash Superbad, Mottola goes for more blatantly tender notes in filming his pet project.
Filmmaker Richard Shepard only thinks he knows how to fake it so real that he’s beyond fake.
On Tuesday, when hipsters all over Brooklyn are buying copies of the film, will Armond White leave his house?
The Squid and the Whale dares not harshly judge its all-too-human characters.
A spotless transfer all-around (the sterling silver is sterling and Christina Ricci’s hair is blacker than black), but the film is still ugly as sin.
The best thing that can be said about Cursed is that it’s scarier than Teen Wolf Too.
The film could have easily been titled Dead Roman’s Club had its makers wanted to be a little more accurate.
Think of Roger Dodger as a less mean-spirited version of Your Friends and Neighbors.