Criterion’s superb presentation lends this modest little film some well-deserved prestige.
Seidelman’s seminal film augurs our era of social media and self-branding.
It’s as unsparing a sketch of twentysomething life in New York City as American independent cinema has yet offered.
It could have used far more of King’s mordant humor, which might have imbued the metaphorical autumnal proceedings with a much-needed jolt of pop anarchy, or even pathos.
Trumbo is a poignant, mind-stirring documentary about the defiantly prolific screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
It’s too bad that Trumbo over-relies on actors to goose up his voice with PBS-style epistolary “class.”