The film tries to pass off bombastic provocations as a substitute for interesting observations.
It’s a testament to the cast and filmmakers that The Lesson’s mysteries are worth unraveling.
The film gets a gorgeous new UHD presentation that you can really sink your teeth into.
The film proves again that the modern-day veneration of Jane Austen as the patron saint of the rom-com is also an act of simplification.
The series alternates between internal reflection and bizarre comedy, one impossible to imagine without the other.
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard improves on its 2017 predecessor only insofar as it runs 20 minutes shorter.
The film struggles to both honor and redeem the past before everything comes to a close.
Mahershala Ali, still fresh off his prior win in this category, performs utter miracles with the role of jazz pianist Dr. Don Shirley.
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is the latest in a long line of fantastical, unwieldy takes on classic fairy tales.
Grant discusses portraying persons who have good and bad in them.
The rapport between Richard E. Grant and Melissa McCarthy offers deeper pleasures than the main plot of the film.
Martin Scorsese captures the exquisite agony and pleasure of passion that’s forced to remain theoretical.
This disc correctly insists that the film is an astonishing achievement that belongs in the canon of classic American cinema.
Ultimately, the film most disappoints for its unwillingness to consistently poke fun of its inherent absurdity.
It recognizes that the thinly veiled secret of Wolverine’s loner act is that he’s always been a cog of some kind.
With this classic Hollywood thriller, Altman proved that career rehabilitation can spring from stylishly biting the hand that feeds you.
It lacks an ability to construct significant instances of character drama as symbolic of larger concerns pertaining to nationalist dilemmas.
Charlie Paul isn’t content to let his stock footage and interviewees lead for him, driven as he is to “make something out of a frame of mind,” though to needlessly busy effect.
That Dom is so clearly an up-to-11 caricature, embodied with reliable pizzazz by Jude Law, makes the sentimental moments feel especially false.
“Role-Play” features the best performance of Lena Dunham’s career.