Robert De Niro’s oddly peripheral scenes constitute perhaps the most flavorless paycheck turn of his career.
The film’s second release on Blu-ray looks to be the essential version of Scorsese’s masterwork.
Rodriguez loves grindhouse cinema, but you’d never know it from Machete, which seems more interested in mockery than homage.
Despite its title, Little Fockers barely features children. Other things it’s lacking include laughs, coherence, and a reason to exist.
It packs a wealth of caring and admiration for its subject without ever feeling sanctimonious, showy, or overly nostalgic.
Scorsese chronicles Jake LaMotta’s public bouts and private demons with bruising acuity.
The film examines the divide between ethical uprightness and moral bankruptcy with dreary ponderousness.
Robert Rodriguez’s films are so busy chuckling at their own supposed audacity that there’s no need for viewers to join in the revelry.
The disc’s image quality makes the film more of an eyesore than it already is.
Must Robert De Niro inflict a moribund genre botch like Everybody’s Fine on the public just in time to grinch us up for Christmas?
The termitic meat of this Faustian exercise sits trapped under multiple, calcified layers of narrative and visual inanity.
Michael Seresin’s cinematography may not be in the service of much, but the 1080p transfer confirms its accomplishment.
Generally, the film is a compelling portrait of Hollywood egoism, though it suffers from this very egoism itself.
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino share countless scenes together but don’t develop anything more than a clichéd cop-duo rapport.
A robust overview of Frankenheimer’s most vital years, despite the recycled extras.
The film is a compendium of multifarious genre inflections seemingly intended for friends of Tori.
Word of advice to Madonna: Work with notoriously bratty directors more often.
We’re entering into this conversation coming from antithetical perspectives.
Luc Besson’s Arthur and the Invisibles clears the smog left behind by the year’s dubious family entertainments.
Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd is the second movie of this Oscar season that’s wary of cock.