Wedding Party is a spunky freshman effort, but Brian De Palma undoubtedly felt more comfortable in the realm of the wryly sophomoric.
The film turns the Vietnam War into a stylistic, 20th Century Foxy replay of the Hundred Years’ War.
Scorsese, De Niro, and Paul Schrader buffs will want to check out the documentary The Plot to Kill Reagan.
The film is a Frankensteinian fusion of every thriller made in Hollywood from Rosemary’s Baby to Don’t Say a Word.
The protagonists of Mann’s universe have a sense of direction and an unyielding devotion to their chosen profession.
The Iliad of modern crime movies is given absolute platinum service by Warner Home Video.
Hide and Seek is as nuts as Dakota Fanning.
All that Robert De Niro accomplishes is accentuating the needlessness of this tired, redundant focker of a film.
The Untouchables is a violent, masculine, swaggering recreation of Al Capone and his bootlegging industry.
Finally, a Brian De Palma movie for guys who watch movies with their dicks and don’t want to be punished for it!
Shark Tale made me want to immediately start polluting the ocean.
Practically every trait that would come to signify the art of De Palma is at play in the film, many of them, natch, in direct conflict with another.
From God’s (rear)end to our cinema screens plops the latest pile of obsequious Hollywood shit: the aptly and ironically titled Godsend.
It’s sad but not surprising that the best part of this Analyze That package is the dorky mob game in the features department.
Warner’s DVD looks and sounds great, which is more than can be said for De Niro’s performance.
The film is burned by endless slow patches and, ultimately, feels painfully routine.
Past the Road to Perdition lies City by the Sea, Michael Caton-Jones’s equally rote tale of father-son friction.
Showtime is impossibly lightweight for TV satire.