The film communicates its feminist ideas through fascinatingly fetishistic images.
Guillermo del Toro reimagines an agonizing, still shocking noir as an exhibit in a wax museum.
Throughout The Humans, Stephen Karam orchestrates the highs and lows of a family reunion with Chekhovian subtlety.
Although its crime-caper structure is worn extremely lightly, Kajillionaire represents Miranda July’s first real flirtation with genre.
Sam Rockwell did more on the campaign trail to legitimize unlikely redemption than anything Martin McDonagh gave him to work with.
The impudent, unruly streak that so often gives Guillermo del Toro’s films their pulse has been airbrushed away.
Rob Reiner’s film fails to do justice to both the man and the fraught times he so fundamentally influenced.
The Shape of Water’s setting yields an inherent coldness that Guillermo del Toro must work to overcome.
The film’s ruefully honest tone is periodically drowned out by the blare of stagey coincidences.
Bone Tomahawk is skittish about its racism, self-conscious in a manner reminiscent of Django Unchained.
Garrett Hedlund’s performance throbs with an anguish that’s far more honest than the sentimental euthanasia subplot at the center of the film.
Throughout, it becomes difficult to know whether we’re meant to empathize with these characters or laugh at them.
As a film about social issues, and simply being yourself, it’s commendably progressive, going so far as serving as a kind of coming-out story.
Roland Emmerich makes love of country into a thing of unabashed hokum, which bleeds through every nook of this overstuffed jumble and leaves no character untouched.
Robert Redford’s film is blindly cocooned by its own nostalgic self-regard.
The film may prove enduringly fascinating, if only in its function as an arch object of its era.
There’s a curious anxiousness at the root of Jack Reacher, an earnestly feigned, inconsistent attempt to be unique in a familiar genre.
The film is simply the latest entry in an endless line of crime thrillers too concerned with looking cool.
Lionsgate decks the film out with an excellent A/V transfer and an admirable bundle of extras.
It’s not Tolstoy, but it’ll do.