Bros is ultimately let down by its pat perspectives on modern romance and social justice.
Downhill never makes much of an impact as it moves from one mildly amusing cringe-comedy set piece to the next.
Praises the electric carelessness of teenage angst while depicting it as if it were ultimately no more exciting, though no less pleasant, than an hour in the wave pool.
Year four sees the characters preparing for some big adjustments, yet they remain as endlessly idiosyncratic and curiously heartwarming as ever.
Berman, Pulcini, and Diane Lane are consistently engaged in the discussion of the production of the film.
Payne’s lovely, resonant fifth film does the hula on a lonely island of imminent death and wasted life.
Conventional wisdom suggested that adaptations of the biggest bestsellers would make up much of this year’s shortlist.
It’s both unfair and too easy to shake out predictions for this category based on what is most likely to appeal to the Kindle Fire set.
The show is at its most watchable not when it’s tackling some hot-button issue via the guise of a Greendale Community College campus event.
On the basis of About Schmidt, you’d think Alexander Payne had a problem dealing with grief.