Hugo’s celebration of Méliès doesn’t celebrate form. Rather, it celebrates celebration.
The only saving grace of the film’s mostly recycled horrors is how they deepen Michael Fassbender’s android David.
It makes a convincing argument for viewing Thomas Wolfe’s work as a product of the exuberance of the 1920s.
A beautiful presentation of a film that merges the tropes of the 007 series with a startlingly expressive aesthetic.
There’s much to admire here, from its symbolically sickly aesthetic to its clearly shot action sequences.
While all the elements have been cooked to perfection, what sticks to the ribs is the hint of rawness at its center of things.
I have always liked Tony Kushner, and not just the concept of Tony Kushner the public writer.
A savage action movie that somehow manages to preserve the heart of the Bard’s work while reducing his words to devastating shards.
A disappointing slog from the artist formerly known as Martin Scorsese gets a predictably perfect high-def standing ovation.
Conventional wisdom suggested that adaptations of the biggest bestsellers would make up much of this year’s shortlist.
This adaptation of the Bard’s tragedy is contemporized via Paul Greengrass-esque faux-doc aesthetics.
Martin Scorsese’s affection for cinema is, of course, no surprise, and Hugo doesn’t shy away from stumping for the cause of his Film Foundation.
Miss Bala wears on its sleeve that its resilient heroine represents the Mexican body politic.
Rango receives an excellent audio/visual treatment and some solid extras from Paramount.
Rango turns an assembly line of classic western themes and iconography into a bustlingly fresh genre ecosystem.
Another season, another round of Brit transfers
Tim Burton draws the strongly structured material together to produce a black comedy and still blacker tragedy surging with jugular urgency.
This is the definitive release of Tim Burton’s best movie since Ed Wood.
Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street gets a meaty DVD package fit for a cannibal.
Even the film’s DVD evokes a triumph of technical style over substance.