Gilliam’s visually inventive film gets a phenomenal 4K UHD upgrade from Criterion.
Nearly everything in Taylor Hackford’s tin-eared comedy is as ersatz as the Robert De Niro character’s rage is real.
Criterion’s Blu-ray for The Fisher King packs an audio/visual wallop, but is undermined by its transparent interest in communal naval-gazing.
Richard LaGravenese’s film mostly skirts any connection to musical theater as though it were faintly embarrassed.
The film’s chief misstep is taking its title too literally, and ultimately depicting Louie as an indestructible, and thus largely inhuman, superhero.
One of Eastwood’s best films comes to high-def with an aggressively scrubbed image that robs it of some of its beauty.
The film trades entirely in falsely literate seriousness and maudlin high tragedy.
Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, and Water for Elephants finds immense pleasure in juxtaposing extreme dimensionality with budding emotion.
There are many good actresses unsuited for romantic comedies, and Hilary Swank, despite her considerable talents, is one of them.
Hilary Swank and Imelda Staunton butt heads outside the Oscar arena and she still kicks her ass.
This latest entry in the apparently inexhaustible Miracle Teacher genre reliably hits all the expected marks.
Jonathan Demme’s film was apparently too powerful for audiences to handle back in 1998