The series’s ambient preoccupation with death is foregrounded more than ever before with this film’s main dramatic subplot.
The film takes occasional stabs at comic grotesquerie, but it’s brought back to earth by an insistent docudrama seriousness.
Michael Winterbottom’s film succeeds in translating the problematics of intercultural conflict into thriller fodder.
The premise of director Michael Winterbottom’s series has devolved from moderately diverting to actively stifling.
Michael Winterbottom’s documentary is more about hyping Russell Brand as a constituent for the people than locating the means for sustained economic
The film is a mess of tones, but not of ideas, which could well sum up the director’s oeuvre.
The Emperor’s New Clothes suggests that Russell Brand has picked up a few tactics from Michael Moore.
A new element in Look of Silence is the view it offers of those who knew murdered victims or who managed to
Michael Winterbottom and his gifted actors still haven’t quite solved the riddle of portraying social disconnection in a manner that’s anything other
While the film charts its protagonist’s gradual progression toward a renewed sense of agency and freedom, it rarely indulges in lengthy or
With its softened edges, bland aftertaste, and watered-down distillation of Raymond’s life and career, the film represents the house champagne of biographical
Class privilege and sexual politics are inextricably linked in Trishna.
It winds up looking paranoid and more than a little ridiculous.
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s shtick works best in small doses.
Alain Corneau’s 1979 film Série Noire is considered to be one of the best movies based on Jim Thompson’s work.
A beautiful, fitfully successful film with another compelling Casey Affleck performance.
Miral is a middlebrow stew of distracting star cameos, stilted speechifying, and references to The Battle of Algiers.
We all draw the line somewhere different for movie violence.
Casey Affleck executes an uncondescending, chilling turn as the methodical, coal-hearted Lou Ford.
This period psychological thriller features two scenes of startling violence, but they’re far more unpleasant than shocking.