The film is more invested in making its characters likable rather than risking our sympathies.
This set will be a must-buy for completists, but it may be too light on extras for everyone else.
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber is awkwardly split between a broader look at Uber and a bog-standard rise-and-fall narrative.
Star Wars: Visions refreshes the Star Wars universe with an eclectic range of styles and tones and a subversive streak.
It pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
The film is an unwieldy array of muddled ideas that never gel together into a cohesive whole.
Convenient plot twists undermine its early pretense that it’s aiming for something other than to exploit our deepest, most regressive fears.
Johnson’s debut feature receives an excellent home-video package from Kino.
It depicts Snowden’s ethical dilemmas in a political vacuum that disregards America’s complex security threats.
It aims to foster a spirit of giddy anarchy in order to tie a ribbon around its shambolic script and rickety pacing.
In order to make the walk, and in order for it to matter to him, Philippe Petit has to comprehend it as real and impossible.
Whereas a single, stinging one-liner would have sufficed Tourneur or Lang, Miller’s overcompensating flood of pulpy dialogue only renders his characters flat and sans empathy.
Sadly, Halloween: H20 has nothing to do with water.
Baggage Claim, the other(ed) wide release this week, will likely be marginalized because of these “higher profile,” male-driven openers.
It does for porn-dependence what Shame did for sex addiction by offering a surface-level look at the effects of its specific pathology on its lead male character.
The lame extras are disappointing, but Spielberg’s quietly subversive political comedy receives an otherwise superlative transfer.
Film archivist Rick Prelinger puts a new spin on the word “interactive” with No More Road Trips?
Don Jon’s Addiction is a film whose underlying themes are reminiscent of the more dramatic Shame.
Looper injects the sci-fi actioneer with a much-needed jolt of moral consciousness.
A spry, inventive antidote to American blockbuster bloat.