The second season of The Flight Attendant keeps its characters constantly on the go even as they face down their demons.
Steven Soderbergh takes a macro approach to the scandal, though the results, with rare exception, are vexingly micro.
Writer-director Susan Walter’s film is almost determined to disprove the causality of social phenomena.
It perfectly communicates the surreal hell of what the original production of The Room must have been like.
For a film about such a singular profession, it offers surprisingly little insight into linemen’s day-to-day labor.
Rarely has the question “What if this is a dream?” been fraught with such bitterly ironic implications.
The question of why one should actually work up any emotional investment in what happens to these people is never really answered, much less asked in the first place.
Lost in the music, mustaches, and furniture of the early ’70s, this docudrama of a porn star’s exploitation isn’t nearly painful enough.
If 2004’s Catwoman expressed anything, it was the empowerment Halle Berry felt after winning her historic Oscar three years prior.
Craven’s deep-seated ambivalence with his own religious upbringing sometimes sparks the rote Jesus freakery of Deadly Blessing to life.
Lovelace seems unwilling or unable to go to deeper and darker places.
In the general critical conversation surrounding the films of Paul Verhoeven, Total Recall often gets the short shrift.
It’s a worthwhile buy for fans, with terrific grain and an even better commentary track.
If recent sci-fi film ads are any indication, all we are is pixels in the wind.
Bobby is not better than JFK but it is not completely without value.
Alpha Dog boasts a menacing drum n’ bass score and lots of meaningless split screen effects.
The film is an Oliver Stone panorama by way of The Love Boat.
No, Basic Instinct 2 will not cure cancer, but it isn’t trashy enough to give you gonorrhea.
Michael Caton-Jones’s sequel feels spayed whenever Sharon Stone isn’t on screen.
Even as the casting goes against convention, Don and Jarmusch never sufficiently look past the clichés of these roles .