In the wake of the ostentatious atmospherics summoned by the likes of Shutter Island and American Horror Story: Asylum, the film feels unnecessarily restrained.
A good platter for a great, underappreciated classic of British cinema—light on supplements but strong in presentation.
There’s nothing behind all this sturm und drang but a lineup of insubstantial ciphers.
The year’s silliest and most stubbornly self-serious blockbuster,arrives on Blu-ray with a flawed A/V transfer.
Olive Films’s set compiles three of the director’s seldom seen late works.
Conventional wisdom says this film would surely have the sound categories in the bag.
At the center of all three of films is a deep tension regarding heroism and its tangible impact on the mass corruption infecting much of society’s institutions.
Jaws: The Revenge all-too-well articulates the emptiness of nostalgia for its own sake.
In The Dark Knight Rises, evil takes the form of those intent on overturning societal dynamics.
Next time you snuggle up with your childhood friend, remember these teddy bear stars, who strive to prove there’s more to them than mere fluff.
The specter of George Lucas looms large over Journey 2: The Mysteries Island.
De Palma’s fever dream of fear and desire may never get the deluxe Blu-ray transfer it so richly deserves.
Cars 2, even more than its predecessor, is the Pixar movie that’s safe to hate.
The snappy and simplistic prologue proves that the film is only interested in strip-mining Romeo and Juliet for its elemental parts.
Rent it and revel in the mash up of competing genres and themes so unique to the Hollywood landscape.
Inception is an ambitious, initially absorbing film that mutates into something unpleasantly unwieldy.
This time, as opposed to all the other times, it’s personal.
Like Jodie Foster, Dakota Fanning has been the real deal from the time she was a kid.
The Soloist is a crude fiasco that trivializes the very values it allegedly enshrines.
It’s a testament to Michael Caine that Is Anybody There? is even sporadically palatable..