Michael Mann’s moody crime classic gets a definitive release in the UHD format.
Kino’s release highlights the harsh beauty and bitter bombast of Konchalovsky’s outsized action drama.
This definitive package will be essential for both fans of the film and scholars interested in the transition of Old Hollywood to New.
The film exists resolutely outside of salience and doggedly within the comfort of escapism.
The entire world of Ray Donovan feels typified by nothing more than pent-up machismo.
Stone’s most underrated movie is a dark comic fantasy of sin and futility as well as one of the craziest and most beautiful of all noirs.
Conrack is the rare inspirational film that bothers to elucidate on both the benefits and the classist perils of bold, unfettered do-gooding.
The film is a lot more fun when it’s completely nonsensical, before its baddie’s motives and harebrained plot are funnel-fed to the viewer.
Warner's 1080p transfer of the film preserves the haunting, mythic quality of Vilmos Zsigmond's work.
A brief featurette is the disc’s main supplement, collecting a handful of new interviews with the three primary cast members and screenwriter Al Schwartz.
The movie is fascinating, and undeniably entertaining from an archival point of view.
This yuckfest (in the truest sense of the term) makes sure that, at every single moment, its audience knows exactly what’s coming next.
The film’s commentary on vice and decency is far less immediate and realistic than its gritty aesthetic would have one believe.
You know a film is going to be the pits when the director blows his artistic load on darkening the colors of the Disney logo.
It’s designed to emulate the effect of an amusement park ride, providing a few cheap, fleeting thrills by jostling us about with disorienting speed.
The movie is “more than meets the eye”: an elaborate advert for the U.S. military. “Be all that you can be” would have been more honest.
A haunting masterpiece, as mysterious as the deep, dark woods.
This man-versus-nature story is also about man indulging his most uncivilized instincts.
Will another film this year elicit such an elevated level of recoil?
If Michael Bay loves the military so much, why doesn’t he just marry it?