Addiction here springs from self-absorption, which is the common denominator of all evil.
Dogfight is pitched on the precipice of a massive sea change in American life.
Throughout, the film toggles between comedy, light surreality, and philosophical inquiry.
Though it’s slow to carve out the particulars of its world, Outer Range is ultimately an alluring exploration of lives and lands lost.
In spite of the film’s strikingly lived-in sense of place, the script’s melodramatic storytelling works against that verisimilitude.
The series is gory and dour with a bone-deep cynicism, but it’s also optimistic in its own small way.
Arrow Video offers a miraculously gorgeous restoration of Ferrara’s grubby and neurotic work of lo-fi horror expressionism.
Leatherface may as well have been overseen by any hipster looking to make a mark at Platinum Dunes.
Writer-director Marti Noxon understands that the only truthful ending to this story is no ending.
Altman’s sprawling tragicomic testament to fate and infidelity gets an impressive 4K upgrade from Criterion.
Every set piece brings to mind an Epcot Center attraction built from borrowed parts, and on a CW show’s budget.
Almost Human is a bargain-basement rehashing of various environments pilfered from a motley crew of science fiction forebears.
Though James Wan’s latest claims to be based on a true story, in truth it’s based on every horror film that’s come before it.
The film is overly indebted to formula, but at its best, it’s an engagingly free-form character study.
About Cherry is about as far from pornographic as indie films get.
High Fidelity deserves better than an obligatory Blu-ray that offers little upgrade from the original DVD.
One really can’t blame much of the film’s defects on the source material.
Someday this fascinating curio by a major European filmmaker will get its full due.
A riot of heavy glances and portentous imagery, a near constant chorus of brooding strings and, in its latter, terminal stages, an excruciating program of narrative elongation that verges on the absurd.
He gave her his heart, she gave him a pen, and Say Anything… still gives off a sweet, enveloping glow.