This Blu-ray release positions the film as a definitive document of the political tumult in late-1960s America.
The film spends its first act establishing a flimsy emotional groundwork before gleefully taking a sledgehammer to it just seconds into act two.
Payne’s lovely, resonant fifth film does the hula on a lonely island of imminent death and wasted life.
Stoking one’s cynicism over this category is the very real probability that Jonah Hill will be an Oscar nominee.
The Descendants is unassumingly superb, and it’s sure to clinch a whole lot of Oscar nominations. Indeed, it’s a Clooney.
On the basis of About Schmidt, you’d think Alexander Payne had a problem dealing with grief.
Part Coen brothers and part James L. Brooks, Alexander Payne makes comedies about serious stuff like abortion and midlife crises.
This Blu-ray release offers yet another reason to revisit Tarantino’s masterpiece on unrequited love.
It seems to miss the irony of what the recent proliferation of faux-exploitation films actually partially represents.
The brooding main characters in James M. Hausler’s Kalamity take indulgent suffering to another level.
The Blu-ray features two commentaries and both bring out the good humor behind the making of the film.
A hodgepodge of Steinbeckian clichés, Touching Home isn’t a film that exists for our benefit.
Matthew McConaughey has the looks, charm, and self-deprecating good humor fit for modern assembly-line studio rom-coms.
David Lynch is a filmmaker who has haunted my mind since the first moment I saw one of his films.
If any movie aspires to capture What It All Meant, you can’t get much more assertive than Medium Cool.
The Evangelist manages to function as an amalgam of a Forster solo record.
The story is as dumb as one could possibly hope for on the surface.
Flush it down the toilet.
These are the sorts of films New York Times critic A.O. Scott recently complained weren’t being made anymore.
It’s hard to imagine any amount of directorial dexterity or pertinent subtextual commentary salvaging Firewall.