The show’s struggle to find pathos in its characters’ predicament often comes at the cost of its comedy.
Everything about this production is handled with a light, inviting touch.
Despite this clever setup, Tom Gormican’s film isn’t the self-reflexive skewering of Hollywood that one might expect.
Matrix Resurrections is the most personal, vision-driven blockbuster of its era, and Warner’s 4K disc maximizes its unorthodox beauty.
The cunning narrative arc of Lana Wachowski’s film is one of renewal in the face of rebooting.
Star Wars: Visions refreshes the Star Wars universe with an eclectic range of styles and tones and a subversive streak.
The series is about reorienting shame and blame from those who died to those who couldn’t be bothered.
Payne’s defenders might call his often acidic touch Swiftian, though it comes off more toothlessly noncommittal.
It typifies Fincher’s style while pushing him in new creative directions, and the minimally loaded BD wisely leaves the film open for spirited debate.
Freak Show helps to confirm an unofficial rule about the series at large: The more a season actively utilizes its chosen setting, the better it is.
“Magical Thinking” finds the series resorting to its usual bag of boring, hyperbolically over-plotted tricks.
There’s a comic streak to the film that suggests David Fincher may understand the material as trash, but it’s the kind of affectation that only reinforces its insults.
Throughout, Seth MacFarlane’s whiny point-scoring feels like an explicit appeal for audience sympathy.
This sequel strenuously works to form a total inversion of the first movie’s relationship with food.
Raja Gosnell’s particular zeal to modernize the Smurfs only develops this would-be family comedy into a shamelessly manipulative smurftastrophe.
The film comes to play like a sly sales pitch for 3D TV sales, directed squarely at coach-potato potheads.
The Smurfs movie reminds us that there’s no bigger bitch in life than nostalgia.
The real target of the film’s ire is New York envy itself, and the sad people who simply couldn’t stomach living anywhere else.
It’s easy to appreciate the drive that the film’s kids possess, but we never quite feel their burning passion.
The sheer absurdity of much of the film’s plot provides the bulk of the entertainment.