Throughout Maestro, Bradley Cooper mostly relegates Bernstein’s art to the sidelines.
Marry Me plays out as the logical culmination of a multi-hyphenate icon’s indiscriminate commercial voracity.
When Ralph Breaks the Internet ignores the glittering marvels of the internet and focuses on the rapport between its two leads, it’s deeply moving.
The film sacrifices some of its innate appeal by making ham out of the supposed relics of a less enlightened era.
It uses the mawkishness of a Hallmark Channel movie as an ironic backdrop for a twisted Hitchcockian thriller.
The film’s lampooning of a business built on pure surface extends to its riotous original songs.
The film displays little ability to utilize Ashby’s violent actions for means other than high-concept fodder and out-of-place bloodshed.
Throughout, Seth MacFarlane’s whiny point-scoring feels like an explicit appeal for audience sympathy.
Louie is akin to Seinfeld in its view of a privileged life constantly swayed by the particulars of Manhattan geography.
The Unbelievers isn’t as galvanizing as it would like to be.
Disney’s desperate and wrong-headed riff on Toy Story gets an expectedly excellent A/V transfer on Blu-ray with a bundle of extras that offer a few bonus points.
Rich Moore’s Wreck-It Ralph is built on licensing.
It’s impossible not to look at Take This Waltz as anything other than fantasy.
Focusing on the fallout from a tell-all novel, Peep World itself feels like a bad literary adaptation.
The film is a tone-deaf odyssey of personal discovery striving to echo Dante’s Inferno.
In the film’s doting view, there’s no great subtext, no great mystery, to Rickles’s success or appeal.
The closing scene is so modestly pitch-perfect that the perfectly average preceding material barely deserves it.
Bill Plympton’s world of fantasy is right on target with that of fellow shock animator Don Hertzfeldt.
Todd Phillips seems incapable of escaping youthful educational environs.
Rent-heads will shriek for joy when they encounter the supplemental materials available on this two-disc DVD edition.