The film smuggles some surprisingly bleak existential questioning inside a brightly comedic vehicle.
One of the Criterion Collection’s best recent discs, this restoration of Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a dream for cinephiles.
The film veers toward half-hearted, sentimental drama that seems purely obligatory to its seasonal milieu.
Altman’s sprawling tragicomic testament to fate and infidelity gets an impressive 4K upgrade from Criterion.
With this classic Hollywood thriller, Altman proved that career rehabilitation can spring from stylishly biting the hand that feeds you.
Gallagher’s work has never gone stale because the actor keeps things both cool and committed.
Given dreadful material, no one in the cast does even passable work.
The film, through its spectacular dance sequences, advocates an ethos of polite remonstration.
It would seem that Christina Aguilera’s regard for retrograde musical forms spills over into her taste in films.
What you see is unfortunately all of what you get.
The film arrives on Blu-ray with a befittingly humble and loving audio and visual transfer.
The film’s maudlin, self-sabotaging audience-coddling is right out of the Zemeckis playbook.
The commentary featuring Kilner, Mandy Moore, and Alexandra Holden is certainly intimate, but it’s more giggly than insightful in the end.
How to Deal unravels like pages from a self-flagellating tween girl’s diary.
Mr. Deeds is just Mr. Deeds Goes to Town updated for the Big Daddy crowd.
Sam Mendes’s slick American Beauty doesn’t age well.