The film is at once a journey of self-actualization and a testament to female solidarity.
Anderson moves even closer to cultural curation and further from sustained storytelling.
The film is a down-in-the-muck advert for an ultimately dewy-eyed vision of the silver screen.
What lingers most readily from Amsterdam are the little privileged moments.
Paramount’s UHD release renders the film’s sensory overload in its fullest expression.
Throughout, James Gunn renders the half-grim, half-absurdist nature of the Suicide Squad with delightfully bloody abandon.
Birds of Prey feels at times less like its own story and more like a trailer for what’s coming next.
One of the great mysteries of this year’s awards season is the ultimate fate of Jojo Rabbit.
The film is too irreverent in tone and narrow in scope to place Roger Ailes’s criminality in a larger, more meaningful context.
The film is Quentin Tarantino’s magnum opus, a sweeping statement on an entire generation of American popular culture.
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s film ultimately succumbs to melodramatic clichés and simplistic political demagoguery.
All the palace intrigue and endless backstabbing in Mary Queen of Scots feels at once overly familiar and underdeveloped.
Even the reliably intense Margot Robbie is unable to fill the gaps left by the film’s unambitious screenplay.
Throughout the awards season, Frances McDormand has remained impervious to the controversy whirling around Three Billboards.
Will Gluck’s Peter Rabbit is mercifully light on the soppy sentimentality that often weighs down most kiddie flicks.
In a Slant exclusive, the makers of I, Tonya discuss the importance music played in the film.
I, Tonya’s attempts to implicate viewers is its broken shoelace, too pat and glib to be convincing.
Simon Curtis’s film is often bathetic, but its most glaring faults lie in its extreme structural imbalance.
David Ayer’s film longs to be bad, yet its forced by outside pressures to follow narrow, preset rules.
The Legend of Tarzan drags Edgar Rice Burroughs’s century-old pulp into the social perspective of the present day.