Car movies remind us of all the things that can happen when we turn the key.
Quentin Tarantino’s generation-defining classic receives a sterling, detail-rich 4K transfer.
The dearth of extras make this release feel like a missed opportunity.
Cinema Speculation Review: Quentin Tarantino’s Wrenching Blend of Criticism and Memoir
The fan-boyishness that can get away from Tarantino in his writings for the New Beverly Cinema is wielded like a scalpel in Cinema Speculation.
The film looks better than ever, though the lack of a new 4K transfer from the negative leaves open the possibility of a superior future release.
Given the academy’s long history and resurgent embrace of technical triumphs, we’re not holding our breath for an upset here.
One of the realities of the Oscar race is that you never want to peak too early.
On the occasion of the release of Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, we ranked Tarantino’s feature films.
The film is Quentin Tarantino’s magnum opus, a sweeping statement on an entire generation of American popular culture.
When it rains, it pours.
As QT’s first film as both writer and director, Reservoir Dogs indicates a remarkably fully formed cinematic sensibility.
The festival’s triumph was Harmonia, a culture-hopping orchestra melodrama of paradoxically modest tone.
The premise of the film is simple, but it’s a simplicity that can only attract complications.
Familiar as its art/life paralleling may be, it’s all fueled by a filmmaker with an intimate relationship to his subject matter.
The book affords boastful insights that require serious consideration.
In what sense, then, is Machete Kills not simply that: a cash-in sequel meant to make fast money?
Okay, so audiences still aren’t ready for De Palma’s operatic visual sensibilities, but surely critics must be on board by now, right?
Mahatma Gandhi is—and always has been—many things to many people, but a sex symbol?
The book offers numerous alternative suggestions about the trends of critical reception in film/media culture.
It’s always a pleasure to encounter genre ambition contained in such a sinewy-shot, emotionally resonant, and gorgeously photographed package.