Both keenly calculated and flowing with offbeat, naturalistic detail, Hanif Kureishi’s jewel of a script reflects his sensibilities as a playwright.
John Crowley’s film fails as a critique of draconian security states and surveillance culture.
Criterion welcomes this early Leigh masterpiece into the fold of contemporary classics with a stunning image and outstanding audio commentary.
Warner Home Vidoe does good by Cloud Atlas’s technical skill.
With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year’s likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze.
Criterion continues to show enduring love for Gilliam’s wondrous magnum opus with their generous Blu-ray package.
At this stage, the alternately thrilling and unwieldy three-hour epic is the season’s closest thing to a wild card.
Cloud Atlas is a rare film that’s greater than the sum of its often innocuous parts.
Whatever The Iron Lady is to you, this Blu-ray will give you just-adequate satisfaction.
Meryl Streep delivers multiple scenes of fierce, brilliantly overacted mimicry capable of reducing the whole theater to a wowed hush.
Despite flashes of punk rawness, Gibson’s winter-of-discontent musical drama can barely tap the glass, let alone break it.
This yuletide fable that boasts Aardman Animation’s peerless mix of whip-smart comedy and cheery heart.
Sleeping Beauty is enervated, ludicrous, and the sort of unique debut that makes one impatient to see what comes next.
Its sacrifice of narrative cohesion in favor of pushing aesthetic and expressive boundaries has rubbed some fans the wrong way.
David Yates finds limitless opportunity to depict smallness and stillness in chaos and hubbub.
With Topsy-Turvy, Leigh jettisons his usual pinpoint focus in favor of a broad, inclusive narrative.
Another Year is a tale of haves and have-nots—those who are touched by grace and those who are not.
Mike Leigh’s latest is a lovingly told but insufficiently nuanced story of four seasons.
An underwhelming Blu-ray to remind viewers that the problems with Terry Gilliam’s recent films are not an entirely new development.
Jim Broadbent, perhaps the least celebrated of living Oscar-winning actors, frequently enlivens the labored Irish crime comedy Perrier’s Bounty.