The fatal flaw of the film is that it genuinely believes in the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
There’s no attempt to hide that the film is pure fan service, a greatest-hits mashup of Spider-Man’s cinematic legacy.
Throughout, Judd Apatow dramatizes the ideal of community with an almost Eastwoodian sense of rapture.
Only Marisa Tomei’s face can compete with Huppert’s ability to turn even the sappiest of scenarios into a nuanced tour de force.
Jon Watts deftly weaves the epic and the mundane aspects of Spider-Man’s existence throughout the film.
The horror throughout the film is dramatically connected to the struggles of poor and marginalized people.
By partially demonstrating what a fresher superhero movie might look like, it underlines its genre-defined limitations.
The film’s fourth-wall-breaking wags a finger at the perceived facile nature of celebrity-driven mass culture even as it ultimately condescends to audiences.
Sloppy and haphazard where it should be calculatedly chaotic, it can’t ever seem to settle on an appropriate tone.
I had the chance to chat with the cast and crew about their years-long friendships, tricks of the trade to keep the energy high, Raymond Chandler Easter eggs, and more.
Adam Rapp’s Loitering with Intent is a comedy concerned with myopia that doesn’t succumb to the self-obsessed pitfalls of that subject.
The push for heartrending poetry makes it clear that the film is putting too fine a gloss on the acute pains of one small tragedy.
it’s clear that Ruba Nadda enjoys injecting familiar genre tropes with an element of Middle-Eastern political critique.
Andy Fickman’s Parental Guidance offers a confused and flat portrayal of generational differences.
It’s unavoidable to look at Octavia Spencer’s sunny Oscar odds though the filter of co-star Viola Davis’s ascendance in the Best Actress category.
This must be the year that Ryan Gosling teaches lessons in character to bright young men everywhere.
A Dangerous Method unsettles with its lucid visions of release and repression.
The schizophrenic conception of Ryan Gosling’s character is indicative of the film’s largely dichotomous view of romantic relationships.
Let Salvation Boulevard preach the anti-organized-religion gospel!
The Lincoln Lawyer has a hard-boiled identity bubbling under the conventional narrative mechanisms at work.