This is a 4K UHD release fit for one of the masterpieces of the cinema.
Imprint’s Blu-ray is further proof that Terence Malick’s sophomore feature is among the most visually dazzling films ever made.
Bits of editorializing dialogue throughout In Dubious Battle suggest the resonant film that might’ve been.
The film is confused in conception, dreary in execution, and completely lacking in forward momentum.
It starts off as a dynamic parable about faith before wilting into a glum and rather disingenuous paean to the family.
Bloodline is full of gifted actors, but Ben Mendelsohn walks away with it, largely because of his uniquely poignant sleaze-ball charisma.
While Mickle’s compositions lose much of their verve in the later half, his regard for the analog doesn’t.
What works about the film can largely be attributed to Tracy Letts’s original text.
What this movie finally boils down to is a deceptively simple tale of two brothers, and of being one’s brother’s keeper, and of seeking justice on the crudest of fronts.
The documentary addresses, and acutely analyzes, the way friendship can bend, and occasionally snap, over time.
The relative quality of generational family abuse, a prominent motif in the play, comes through loud and clear.
It feels like an introductory chapter to a more substantive, sprawling study of the actor.
Nichols’s beautiful and touching adventure is a bracing reminder of the primal thrill that a great pop film can offer.
The film is impossible to take seriously as a commemoration of Moultrie’s life or Allen’s prolific status because of its plethora of contrivances.
The poster for August: Osage County would have been an event no matter what it looked like.
The film ultimately succeeds thanks to small details, from the swampy texture of its location photography to its uniformly expert cast.
The film may prove enduringly fascinating, if only in its function as an arch object of its era.
These are two very different films about the avenues through which individuals feel fulfilled, or alienated, by those they consider close comrades.
Whatever spurred Twilight Time to commit Steel Magnolias to a 3,000-disc run, the results look generally pretty good.
You really can’t miss the irony in the Killing Them Softly poster designs, as both of them are about as soft as a shell casing.