The show’s fifth installment is both more simplistic and less coherent than past seasons.
Criterion outfits Leigh’s extraordinarily moving Palme d’Or winner with a transfer that honors its granular intensity.
Despite a searing performance from Diane Lane, writer-director Thomas Bezucha’s Let Him Go ultimately self-immolates.
It’s to the immense credit of these two great actors that Ordinary Love is so inspiring.
The series is ultimately content to luxuriate in the well-established tension between its central characters.
One of last year’s most haunting films receives a gorgeous transfer that’s perhaps appropriately light on supplements.
The tea leaves tell us that this is a more unpredictable Oscar race than most people are perhaps willing to admit.
The film arrives at a place of qualified peace that cauterizes the emotional wounds of Anderson’s cinema.
The trailer for Anderson’s eighth feature-length film dropped less than 30 minutes ago and cinephiles are already frothing at the mouth.
It attempts to dress up torture-porn tropes with a late-inning switch to science fiction that spectacularly backfires.
Disney has given Maleficent a red-carpet audio-visual treatment.
An astute summation of Mike Leigh’s glum view of humanity, but also a challenge to this disposition and his own pessimistic perspective.
The film’s audience may feel as if they’ve inadvertently booked a trip with no destination.
The mystery was far preferable to having Maleficent defanged and declawed in the process.
Not even when the doomed Juliet reaches for Romeo’s dagger do you feel a single vicarious pain in your gut.
All of Womb’s affected quietude just smacks of posturing.
With Topsy-Turvy, Leigh jettisons his usual pinpoint focus in favor of a broad, inclusive narrative.
Another Year is a tale of haves and have-nots—those who are touched by grace and those who are not.
Mike Leigh’s latest is a lovingly told but insufficiently nuanced story of four seasons.
The festival ended with its longest competition title, and it wasn’t even a complete film.