The film brushes up against a greater truth about how men and women move through the world.
If its copycat visual artistry illuminates nothing, at least its script is sincerely devoted to probing Finkel and Longo’s odd partnership.
Viewer/character solidarity only holds up for so long, and the film falls hard into twisty, nonsense territory, skipping over its stronger themes in the process.
It’s Jason Statham’s badass grimace and combat acumen that elevate Safe above your average direct-to-video genre work.
Paul Verhoeven’s fantastic commentary from the Criterion Collection DVD version is, sadly, not duplicated here.
One of the best-looking films of 2005 doesn’t exactly get the red-carpet treatment from Warner Home Video.
The dichotomy between Murrow and McCarthy is emblematic of Good Night, and Good Luck’s fixation on contrast.
The film is a Frankensteinian fusion of every thriller made in Hollywood from Rosemary’s Baby to Don’t Say a Word.
Hide and Seek is as nuts as Dakota Fanning.
Too bad that the crummy cover art may deter some prospective buyers.
The entire film bears the hand of Donald Kaufman’s revisions found in the last 30 minutes of Adaptation.