The film reveals itself as a prototypical yet surprisingly tender love story.
Matt Reeves’s compelling back-to-basics take on DC Comics’s most iconic character gets an excellent 4K release.
The Batman is a commemoration of the Batman mythology and its stylistic and tonal shifts across its 80-year history.
For a while, though, Olivia Colman’s performance carries the film, with little narrative distraction or stylistic conspicuousness.
This is an engaging, no-frills entertainment that still fails to justify its reason for being.
At the heart of Veena Sud’s film is the raw material for a potentially ingenious satirical domestic thriller.
Agnieszka Holland’s film is also a tribute to those who see the world for what it is.
A wonderful high concept is compromised for another story of lonely people learning to connect.
The film dwells in a murky middle ground where everything is overblown but meant to be taken at face value.
The series suggests the failure of U.S. intelligence in the years before 9/11 was one of imagination.
In terms of scale and narrative ingenuity, Wormwood is as staggering as any Errol Morris film before it.
Pablo Larraín’s film bluntly hammers home the notion that history is framed by perception rather than reality.
The films at this year’s festival offered plenty examples of legacies lived up to and not—neglected and obsessed over.
The film never surrenders to the abandon of its action, and as such never feels like it shifts out of first gear.
Aesthetically, the film cunningly suggests life that exists solely within an academic experiment, closed off from chaos that isn’t manufactured.
The film is a lightly dramatized case file that’s structurally averse to world-building and psychological portraiture.
It’s best appreciated as a tragicomic profile of a man whose extraordinary talent was undermined by the political reality in which he was enmeshed.
Most disheartening is how the female leads aren’t given ample space to develop as dynamic characters beyond the most urgent confines of the script’s scenarios.
Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves reveals the dark core contained within an actor’s nice-guy neuroticism.
Xavier Dolan reigns in his often flagrant use of formalism without sacrificing his confidence as a filmmaker.