In Claire Denis’s film, sex is the great equalizer, or at least the act that allows people to defer taking a firm moral or ethical stance.
The series suggests a more conventional comedy, with jokes that are intended to be taken at face value.
When Ralph Breaks the Internet ignores the glittering marvels of the internet and focuses on the rapport between its two leads, it’s deeply moving.
The filmmakers clearly love Laurel and Hardy, and this love is both Stan & Ollie’s great liability and chief strength.
The Sisters Brothers proffers a sort of Edenic vision of a latter-day El Dorado that’s worth basking in.
The cast informs their non sequiturs with such soulfulness, allowing the film to largely sustain its one-joke premise.
In Sing, musical theater is simply an excuse for the filmmakers to deliver an animated version of American Idol.
Eventually, director Matteo Garrone’s self-consciously patchwork, one-thing-after-another structure wears thin.
As intelligent, often hilarious, and occasionally insightful as it is, it aslo shows a filmmaker’s style hardening into shtick.
Its sin is its willingness to interrogate ripped-from-the-headlines topicalities in service of an essentially rote idea.
Lanthimos’s films live and die by their concepts—or gimmicks, depending on your outlook.
The most telling revelation in Tale of Tales has little to do with ugly sisters, transmogrified monsters, or angry ogres.
The film conjures a menacing perspective on how the titular occupation hulls out empathy and cultivates an unsettling strain of cynicism.
Jeff Baena’s film, at heart, is just another overly familiar story of a boy struggling to get over his first love and who’s rewarded for his troubles with a less volatile replacement model.
Disney’s desperate and wrong-headed riff on Toy Story gets an expectedly excellent A/V transfer on Blu-ray with a bundle of extras that offer a few bonus points.
Rich Moore’s Wreck-It Ralph is built on licensing.
Let’s talk about Kevin in the warm light of Oscilloscope’s visually okay and aurally spectacular Blu-ray.
The Dictator doesn’t so much stir hot-button issues as showcase a great satirist off his game.
Tim and Eric’s defining trait is that they seem too soft-spoken to wield brickbats against established orders.
In the race to achieve unadulterated fourth-wall breakage, Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is the new pack leader.