The musical format proves a natural fit for Leos Carax’s love of the visual fantasies created by the cinema’s most basic means of illusion.
Ismael’s Ghosts simultaneously collapses and expands Arnaud Desplechin’s entire body of work.
The film is so humorless and in love with its own obviousness that it grows laughable.
Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts is a lucid, free-form sprawl of stories nested within stories.
It ends up with blurry action that often looks digitally faked and a fractious plot that’s stuck over-explaining itself.
Throughout Allied, director Robert Zemeckis brings to bear his pop-epic scope in what’s otherwise a claustrophobic story.
Dolan adapts a talky play into something that could feasibly have the same emotional effect as a silent film.
It provocatively has audiences see the world’s current ecological concerns in a different and unexpected light.
Mark Osborne’s The Little Prince reveals itself to be concerned with the blossoming of qualified idealism.
Throughout, director Justin Kurzel’s stagey pretensions clash with each of his aesthetic choices.
A gorgeous presentation that also provides unmissable, revelatory insights into its creation, straight from the Dardennes’ mouths.
The gynophobic evidence is there and it’s damning.
We hope to shine a little light on brilliant, touching, often funny performances which enrich our understanding of what it means to be human.
Marion Cotillard refuses easy characterization, conveying a haunted vision of courage in the face of almost certain oblivion.
The film is one of the Dardennes least morally nuanced films to date.
As Marion Cotillard recalls her early goals and ambitions, her memories mirror the themes of The Immigrant itself.
Even a brief summary of the 1974-set film’s plot reveals a near-comical laundry list of recycled plot elements.
Marion Cotillard is an icon of suffering in James Gray’s somber passion play.
In its stripped-down realism and blistering fixation on its main character’s grappling with life and mortality, the film is kin to Roberto Rossellini’s collaborations with Ingrid Bergman.
James Gray has been working toward The Immigrant for his entire career.