The film is affectingly poignant in its frequently uncomfortable presentation of MacGowan’s physical ruination.
Ciro Guerra never quite finds an imagistic equivalent to the novel’s subtly hallucinogenic atmosphere.
The film goes down easy because it saves the self-improvement clichés for the homestretch.
The fun but more predictable Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald moves the new series forward, but only incrementally.
One of Jarmusch’s best and most divisive films has been outfitted with a beautiful and imaginative Criterion package.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary characters feel as if they’ve been air-dropped into a universe where they don’t belong.
Judging from the sequel’s first trailer, we are in perhaps for a darker experience.
The film’s biggest liberty is to make Poirot’s ultimate decision more palatable for American sensibilities.
Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the Agatha Christie detective novel gets its first trailer.
Depp’s perfunctory gestures and flailing pratfalls befit a film that brings the series’s theme-park roots full circle.
Any of the film’s attempts at moralizing are subsumed by Kevin Smith’s obsession with taking aim at his critics.
The film doesn’t clear the CGI cobwebs or successfully anchor any of its new events with emotional heft.
The film is a lightly dramatized case file that’s structurally averse to world-building and psychological portraiture.
This PG-rated romp is, refreshingly, less notable for its happily-ever-afters than its oh-no-they-didn’ts.
Charlie Paul isn’t content to let his stock footage and interviewees lead for him, driven as he is to “make something out of a frame of mind,” though to needlessly busy effect.
If you programmed an algorithm to figure out how Lawnmower Man might be retold by Snake Plissken at the end of Escape from L.A., you’d still wind up with something more human.
Verbinski’s real purdy (and genuinely entertaining) big-budget western has been snuck out on video under cover of darkness.
The crashes, bangs, and booms are no less numbing than anything else you’ve seen in this summer of garbage blockbusters.
While Short Circuit 2 may be dumb, there’s no slickness or meanness to its stupidity.
These are two very different films about the avenues through which individuals feel fulfilled, or alienated, by those they consider close comrades.