The film is at once a journey of self-actualization and a testament to female solidarity.
The Gray Man is a noisy, flashy spectacle that piles clichés atop ludicrous plotting and sprinkles it all with half-funny quips.
The film’s satisfyingly tactile action set pieces serve to hammer home just how perilous the space race really was.
Blade Runner 2049 is so terrified of disreputability that it renders itself dead from the waist down.
Terrence Malick’s Song to Song is about floating along on currents of uncertain desire and excitement.
We feel involuntarily compelled to speculate on how Denzel Washington could edge out Casey Affleck at the last minute.
The film is bound up in a referentiality that precludes the outpourings of emotion we come to musicals for.
Damien Chazelle movie-musical pastiche is eager to please those who might vote it into the AMPAS pantheon.
Shane Black’s film doesn’t want for great exchanges, and even disposable conversations brim with acidic wit.
The film’s fourth-wall-breaking wags a finger at the perceived facile nature of celebrity-driven mass culture even as it ultimately condescends to audiences.
A tangle of violent, symbolic gestures that regards economic exploitation with fetishistic, impossibly overdetermined abandon.
Without question, Bale remains one of Hollywood’s most versatile and risk-taking leading men.
Anchor Bay’s excellent transfer and engaging extras are still not enough to elevate Only God Forgives above anything more than eye candy.
It takes the basic form of the revenge flick and dips it in tar, making for a movie that comes out sticky, nasty, and black.
Kristin Scott Thomas’s sadistic mother figure is indicative of the film’s problematic construction.
The film sacrifices emotional specificity to often-purple marriages of sight and sound.
Gangster Squad is a perfect example of Hollywood hypocrisy.
Drive embraces and even takes comfort in the misery wrought by its characters’ dealings with one another.
The directing race has boiled down to nine names, four of which you can pretty safely etch into stone.
What this poster truly exudes is heat.