The film’s derivatively stylish cinematography laboriously hints at un-broached turmoil and passion.
A rare bad performance from Denzel Washington sinks writer-director Dan Gilroy’s follow-up to Nightcrawler.
Its litany of human freaks and animal monstrosities are meant to distract from the superficiality of its psychological and intellectual concerns.
Barry Forshaw has made a career out of studying the dames, pistols, machismo, and glistening city streets that define crime fiction.
The second season of Sherlock arrives on Blu-ray from BBC in a suitably handsome package with a strong visual/audio transfer.
The film’s superheroes-among-us setup isn’t particularly fresh, and the characters’ powers aren’t always clearly defined.
A gaseous movie experience gets a solid DVD treatment.
The film offers criminal hijinks, pop culture-referencing repartee, and flighty romance that would make even Guy Ritchie wretch.
Criminals try not to take their work home with them, but somehow it sneaks in anyway.
Joy to the world: Wicker Park imagines what life must be like inside a music video.
Josh Hartnett is far too stolid to convey the frazzled, fanatical desperation required by Paul McGuigan’s soporific romantic mystery.
Throughout, Paul McGuigan paints around the narrative substance with vacant symbolism.