Throughout Maestro, Bradley Cooper mostly relegates Bernstein’s art to the sidelines.
Stretched over seven episodes, with a number of distracting subplots, the Netflix series over-complicates its initially intriguing premise.
This new Boys in the Band is a Matryoshka doll of period piecery, a flashback of a flashback of a flashback.
The film is certainly intently devoted to the hoariness of this odd-couple scenario.
It’s modest in scope, its concerns limited to man’s attempts to live both morally and harmoniously with nature.
One can’t help but wonder if The Last Tycoon is hiding anything beneath its surface at all.
Shane Black’s film doesn’t want for great exchanges, and even disposable conversations brim with acidic wit.
With this immaculate Blu-ray transfer, you’re invited to indulge the film’s multitudinous pleasures without shame or judgment.
Magic Mike XXL plays like the party bus whose road was charitably paved.
With the series belaboring the freaks’ theoretically unexpected likability at every possible turn, it’s the villains who stand to walk away with Freak Show.
As a space-opera lampoon, it’s incoherent primarily because it’s never clear what the filmmakers are attempting to spoof.
If this movie is truly following the lead of The Hunger Games’s marketing, then you can expect a minimum of a dozen more posters trickling out in the next 12 months.
If there’s anything to deride about Jodie Foster’s show-stopping moment, it’s that it felt dated, dusty, even quaint.>
The extras are a little, um, bare, but this transfer of one of the best American films of the year is otherwise superb.
Like much of Steven Soderbergh’s output, especially recently, Magic Mike feels undercooked.
Andrew Niccol returns to the eugenics-fostered class dynamics of Gattaca with In Time.