The series gives Natasha Lyonne room to rasp and shamble her way through murder mysteries populated by a murderers’ row of guest stars.
The climax has a certain primally cathartic power, but it doesn’t quite dispel the air of self-satisfaction that envelops the script.
One of the realities of the Oscar race is that you never want to peak too early.
Johnson’s debut feature receives an excellent home-video package from Kino.
Johnson discusses his affinity for the whodunnit, his love of Agatha Christie, Star Wars, and more.
Rian Johnson’s film revives the comic whodunit, a la Clue, for an era of especially heightened class consciousness.
The Last Jedi is largely content to further the themes and narrative strategies of J.J. Abrams’s predecessor.
Walter White may soon be dead, but his legacy will live forever courtesy of this sterling Blu-ray transfer.
Many reviews have pointed out that 42 is a very conventional screen biography of Jackie Robinson. It is.
Looper injects the sci-fi actioneer with a much-needed jolt of moral consciousness.
With its Oscar clout and inevitable crowd-pleasing matched by widespread critical ire, the film is easily the year’s most divisive awards contender.
Does Looper have a prayer in the Visual Effects race, where tigers and hobbits and Avengers will be sprinting, neck-in-neck?
Looper at once understands the visual power of violence and is deeply critical of it.
It’s a caper film that doesn’t generate much excitement around its capers and a comedy that would be much funnier if it paid more attention to detail or established a more personal perspective.
An artful but soulless stunt in the tradition of Miller’s Crossing.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown offers one comic-epic splendor after another.
Obsessively detailed and frequently absorbing, the film affects the form and function of a Rube Goldberg machine.