The script lacks for the variety needed to make more than just a tasting menu take flight.
The xenophobic subtext of the prior films in the Kingsman series is text in Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man.
Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film inadvertently confirms that Bond is best when the simpler, more savage pleasures prevail.
Whatever satire of white elite society is intended by The Forgiven has been blunted by monotony.
The Dig clearly relishes in having found so many fascinating real people arriving at one place at once.
When something is an open secret, does confirmation matter?
The disc perhaps definitively contextualizes the moral urgency of the film’s intricate aesthetic.
Gavin Hood wrings suspense out of the parsing of the nuances of evidence and the tapping of mysterious contacts.
Fiennes discusses his affinity for Russian culture and exploring Nureyev’s life in nonlinear fashion.
Ralph Fiennes’s film too conspicuously avoids an overt political perspective.
Still one of the most fun sugar rushes of the year, the film arrives on home video with a shimmering, chromatic video transfer.
The film is an unbroken chain of one-liners, sight gags, and pop-culture references, and the hit-to-miss ratio is high.
It offers a powerful metaphor for the manner in which we carry the memories of our departed inside ourselves.
The Coen brothers’ sardonic revisionism of Hollywood’s golden era is, ironically, their most earnest feature.
What intrigues, if in a lurid sort of way, is the film’s fudging of projected viewer desires with its characters’.
A beautiful presentation of a film that merges the tropes of the 007 series with a startlingly expressive aesthetic.
Joel and Ethan Coen’s idiosyncrasies elevate Hail, Caesar! above the level of a mere creative exercise.
There’s much to admire here, from its symbolically sickly aesthetic to its clearly shot action sequences.
This time, Anderson comes to play from the outset, with a sense of openness, and of shared intimacy with Seitz, that might be somewhat misleading, but is nevertheless revealing.
We hope to shine a little light on brilliant, touching, often funny performances which enrich our understanding of what it means to be human.