Like the David Cronenberg film upon which it’s based, the show’s biggest strength is its stylish sense of dread.
Black Widow isn’t terribly hard to follow, but in execution the film moves so haphazardly as to be bewildering.
Said I to my fellow Oscar prognosticator last week, "If Emily Blunt wins the SAG, then I don’t think we should sweat this."
The film’s florid screenplay affords Yorgos Lanthimos ample opportunity to assert his idiosyncratic worldview.
The latest from Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite, takes us to the early 18th century, when England and France are at war.
The actress discusses the process by which she’s presently devevloping properties for herself.
The triumph of Disobedience is how the performances and style exteriorize the interior worlds of the characters.
My Cousin Rachel leaves Rachel’s motives, desires, and integrity (or lack thereof) ambiguous through to the end.
This luminous and informative Blu-ray release should ensure at least some degree of collective reconsideration in the years to come.
It shows that people’s misfortunes need not preclude them from living virtuous lives founded on basic human decency.
Derek Cianfrance’s film is a beautifully sustained study in adult themes of emotional crisis.
Underneath the impersonal formal beauty and good acting is a familiar moral about self-imposed limitations.
As ever, writer-director Paolo Sorrentino ironically cuts the legs out from under his protagonists’ wistfulness with grotesquerie.
As intelligent, often hilarious, and occasionally insightful as it is, it aslo shows a filmmaker’s style hardening into shtick.
Lanthimos’s films live and die by their concepts—or gimmicks, depending on your outlook.
The film is an amorphous melange of ill-fitting reference points and misappropriated aesthetics.
Compared to most of the season’s races, Best Actress has remained somewhat open.
The film comes to Blu-ray armed with a superb A/V transfer and a solid packing of extras from Universal.
A tale of two Terences, The Deep Blue Sea gets the deluxe Blu-ray treatment from Music Box Films
This is an unbelievably silly movie, with a script that must eventually come to terms with the fact that it’s just another globetrotting spy caper.