After a while, it all starts to feel like a showreel for the film’s special-effects team than an honest effort to tell a story.
Most affecting in its depiction of friendship, and the performances represent platonic male intimacy in convincing, often moving ways.
If you ask me, though, it’s easily the most repellant of all 24 lineups, and one of the more shameful nominee crops in recent Academy history.
Confession: I don’t like The Lord of the Rings films. All of them.
A once-precious franchise’s weakest installment, which forgets these adventures’ magic was never conjured by bells and whistles.
Rarely do you see a protagonist appear so miniscule on a major movie poster, especially one who’s part of a blockbuster franchise.
A top-shelf presentation of one of last year’s baggiest, most unnecessary films.
Like Avatar before it, Life of Pi is the kind of Oscar-y prestige pic that also stands as a benchmark for the medium.
An award for makeup may be just the thing with which to bless Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth.
There’s more to An Unexpected Journey than self-conscious nostalgia and fan pandering.
The tone of Jackson’s latest is, appropriately, much more jovial than that of Rings, which unfolds in an era far more stricken with despair.
Each of these moments illustrates a slightly different shade of the films’ fluid realization of a complex visual, thematic, and emotional spectrum.
The film, still only clearing its throat, hints at a wellspring of emotional riches to come.
Let’s just say that Carmen Maura, Jennifer Jones, and Bill Cosby have more in common than you might have thought.
The highly subjective task of compiling a list of the 10 best films of all time is nearly as daunting as the thought that plagues every film completist.
These 15 heavens almost all exist on another plane.
I’m sure Andy Serkis is satisfied cashing his checks for what will surely be a lucrative new job.
Lionsgate’s visceral, albeit barebones Blu-ray package lets viewers really sink their teeth into Dead Alive.
An insurmountable amount of extras comes second only to New Line’s stunning visual and audio transfer of Peter Jackson’s exhilarating and exhausting epic.
So try this scenario on for size: You’re just a regular guy who likes to look at porn on the Internet.