Kevin Smith toys with death in Clerks III as a shortcut to bring emotion to a film that otherwise has no meaningful hook.
Arrow’s release gives viewers the opportunity to experience the original cut of Kelly’s freewheeling satire for the first time.
Any of the film’s attempts at moralizing are subsumed by Kevin Smith’s obsession with taking aim at his critics.
Every short in this anthology series exudes a commercially slick anonymity that effectively flattens any potential excitement.
Commingling industry shoptalk with introspective insights and wrangling testimonials, the film casts an incredibly wide net.
Of greatest damage to its coherence is its wholehearted belief that its subjects are offering firsthand reports worth hearing.
Tusk suggests the worst possible gene splice of a Terrance and Phillip South Park episode and Fargo’s blithe condescension.
The film doesn’t even express, as its title implies, “a fan’s hope,” since there’s nothing that needs to be hoped for.
Loose, shaggy, and more than a little rough, Gimme the Loot hearkens back to NYC indies like Kids.
For this list of 15 standouts, the door was open to hallucinations, inanimate objects, and even different species.
Throughout, Bruce Willis sleepwalks through shootouts and patiently sits in the frame’s corner while others attempt funniness.
Smith’s best film, in a disappointing audio-visual package with some great extras.
For all its problems, Chasing Amy remains for me the relative high point of Smith’s career.
The extras are sweet, but Clerks’s low-budget ugliness is a questionable fit for Blu-ray.
Kevin Smith’s clever in-joke movie gets an anemic Blu-ray release.
Get more bang for your buck with this two-disc edition, which is fudge-packed with plenty of titillating bonus features.
Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen were bound to work together.
Teen horniness is not a crime but Southland Tales is.
Though it probably amounts to the equivalent of cinematic racism, I can’t stand fanboys.
If Donnie Darko was Richard Kelly’s Eraserhead, then maybe Southland Tales is his Dune.