The film tenaciously and hauntingly casts a net woven of implications over what’s come before.
The show’s fifth installment is both more simplistic and less coherent than past seasons.
The Father approximates the dislocation of its main character’s mind with a frighteningly slippery ease.
By privileging the white characters in its narrative, Victoria & Abdul exposes itself as insidiously hypocritical.
Lake Bell and Simon Pegg’s star wattage can’t distract from the sense that their characters are almost exclusively defined by their single-ness.
As is often the case in films like this, Seventh Son is at its weakest when it tries to leaven its brink-of-disaster gravity with a little nerdy humor.
For these family units, incest seems the natural endgame of a merit system based on pernicious nepotism and inveterate ass-kissing.
There’s no sense of visual artifice to match the ludicrous pitch of the script, and subsequently, the film comes off as awkward and uncertain.
The film’s visual construction is spare, drawing power from its locations and quietly matted miniatures, though ultimately it succumbs to powering a series of cheap thrills.
Joe Wright crafts an engrossing, literate film, treading water even under the weight of its director’s misguided ambitions.
Throughout, Michell and screenwriter Richard Nelson keep you at arm’s length from Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The moral that it impresses on us is that there’s great value in “special relationships,” be them between world leaders or illicit lovers.
Collaborator’s banter is playful and brazenly self-aware, but its ideas are more than a little stale.
Criterion’s stellar reputation for Blu-ray releases continues unabated with their phenomenal treatment of Wes Anderson’s first masterpiece.
The film is sure to deliver a whopping sugar rush, as well as the inevitably sour letdown.
The visually stupefying but unfeeling Hanna may be seen as Joe Wright’s live-action version of Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
Don’t go looking for a story where there is none.
Ghost Writer suggests a game of chess played delicately and with great precision.
Lone Scherfig’s film is a vivacious, boldly elemental adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber’s unsparing memoir of her formative years.
Dollhouse certainly takes its cues from its eponymous toy.