Once it turns into a home-invasion thriller, the film becomes more sadistic than hilarious.
If the film treats us, like its main character, as a piece of furniture, that’s probably by design.
The film seems fundamentally disinterested in what makes celebrity so compelling.
Stone’s splenetic, sophomoric, but nonetheless captivating media satire has never looked better.
In its second season, the deliciously twisty thriller continues to draw much of its strength from its confident ambiguity.
The film circles a thorny premise, which makes it all the more disappointing that it results in a conventional clinch.
In the end, the filmmakers settle for stigmatizing victimhood, abusing Sue Ann almost as much as her former tormentors.
For a while, Nerve maintains an air of ambiguity about its provocative and somewhat dystopian conceit.
Romeo Is Bleeding projects an aura of obsessive self-consciousness that occasionally suggests the superior film that eluded its creators.
It’s the screenwriting equivalent of Ryan Adams sucking the pop vitality out of Taylor Swift’s deliriously produced tunes.
A romantic drama complicated by a stroller and a wheelchair, and its first mistake is in assuming some kind of equity between the two vehicles.
Soul alone does not make a film, and Hellion is a wispy and timid piece despite its loud bark.
What works about the film can largely be attributed to Tracy Letts’s original text.
The actress gets real about almost quiting acting and her belief that women shouldn’t “lead with sex.”
The relative quality of generational family abuse, a prominent motif in the play, comes through loud and clear.
The poster for August: Osage County would have been an event no matter what it looked like.
How do you distinguish a movie that’s one of the greatest of all time from one of your all-time favorites?
From Blade to Buffy, we’ve always needed fearless soldiers to battle creatures of the night.
It doesn’t take long to gather the influences trickling through Derick Martini’s Hick.
Sympathy for Delicious does everything it can to disguise the fact that it’s ultimately a Christian morality play.