Criterion’s Blu-ray release of Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa offers a superb upgrade on the A/V front and a few new extras to boot.
It spins the narrative of one of the Victorian art world’s most mysterious marriages into a study of life lived and life merely examined.
The old ways have been literally silenced, with no thought as to why they existed in the first place.
Perhaps David Yates recognized that, at this point in the series, addressing the full-scale detail and themes of the story at large would not be feasible
David Yates finds limitless opportunity to depict smallness and stillness in chaos and hubbub.
As with its predecessors, Deathly Hallows’s narrative is driven by gobbledygook devices.
The film never manages to generate the dramatic momentum necessary to create requisite suspense or a sense of import.
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.
The film’s plot is uneven, splitting time between three protagonists who together feature zero endearing defining traits.
“Sweet love, renew thy force.” A commendable collection of a maverick’s final films.
The series’s once buoyant disposition has been obliterated by dread, powerlessness, and crushing responsibility.
Carl Austin and Rahila Gupta’s script is too stilted and corny to be affecting, but it is, from time to time, unintentionally funny.
This is a must-own for keepers of J.K. Rowling’s flame.
Would that the fantasy elements of the Potter series were as fantastic as the simple act of surviving young adulthood.
Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve is a starfucking circle-jerk orgy that doesn’t even have the common decency to get you off.
The shortest Harry Potter film to date, Prisoner of Azkaban is noticeably slim in the extras department.
Here is a Harry Potter film where the filmmaker isn’t trying to fulfill a check-listed quota.
The features on this DVD feel as if they’ve been designed for the five and under crowd.
Kippers for breakfast, Aunt Helga? Is it St. Swithen’s Day already?
As far as stuffy Oxford dramas go, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has them all beat.