Gilliam’s visually inventive film gets a phenomenal 4K UHD upgrade from Criterion.
Gilliam’s film gets a superlative new transfer and a bounty of (entirely true) extras.
This undervalued film receives a beautiful transfer for its Blu-ray debut, but the dearth of extras leaves much to be desired.
Patrick Doyle’s wondrously bombastic score sounds as if Franz Waxman were scoring a slasher movie.
The film is contemptible for a belief in its own stature as a daring attempt to parse through the minutia of its core relationship.
Criterion’s Blu-ray for The Fisher King packs an audio/visual wallop, but is undermined by its transparent interest in communal naval-gazing.
This third and supposedly final edition in the franchise is nothing more than an uncomfortably transparent contractual obligation.
Whereas Bad Santa was nastier and riskier, as well as more mischievously winsome, A Merry Friggin’ Christmas is as curiously timid as it is morally dubious.
Dead Poets Society purports to be about the bravery of following one’s own path. This is a bright, shining lie.
Here, Robin Williams’s frenzied comic demeanor is replaced with equally harried contempt.
Arie Posin’s almost offensively “tasteful” dud remains irritatingly on the surface, more alive to the set design than the characters’ motivations.
With the film, Lee Daniels quietly pushes his talent for hashing out visceral, violent emotions into unexpected dramatic terrain.
The Big Wedding couldn’t possibly be more square.
Reading the book sort of feels like looking through a photo album, often to the point of monotony.
These are two very different films about the avenues through which individuals feel fulfilled, or alienated, by those they consider close comrades.
It would appear that one of the biggest challenges facing movies with huge, starry casts is getting all the actors together to shoot the poster image.
These 15 heavens almost all exist on another plane.
The krill subplot is even thinner than the penguins’, to the point where it scarcely has any reason to exist.
It has all the strong markings of a Van Sant movie and Lionsgate shows the film requisite care on its Blu-ray transfer.
Its Blu-ray debut should remind audiences why this fascinating fairy tale remains Spielberg’s most audacious, ambiguous, and menacing film.