A unique cultural angle and talented lead can’t elevate this uninspired film.
Thelma & Louise is a legitimately unique rethinking of genre structure.
In its fourth season, the series struggles to regain its footing, but the latter half provides satisfying narrative closure.
VHYes settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works.
This powerful apartheid drama still burns with outrage and conviction, and it receives an excellent A/V transfer from the Criterion Collection.
This warm, literate, erotic sports film receives an appropriately vibrant refurbishing courtesy of the Criterion Collection.
The film veers toward half-hearted, sentimental drama that seems purely obligatory to its seasonal milieu.
The main character is too often pushed to the sidelines so that the filmmakers can indulge tired family-drama tropes.
The film buzzes with hand-drawn creativity that’s precious in both the pop-cultural and material senses.
Writer-director Lorene Scafaria’s film is an unconvincing character study that plays like a painfully unfunny sitcom.
The premise of faith-based assisted suicide as a motivating factor for a madman’s killing spree is initially intriguing, but quickly revealed as solemn window dressing.
The film is an almost plotless doodle, with low stakes made even lower thanks to the antiheroine’s bratty passivity.
A heartfelt retro flashback littered with pop-culture iconography and much slang, it focuses on the importance of friendship and loyalty rather than social standing.
The film employs a flashy text-and-graphics aesthetic that immediately brings to mind the satirical undercurrent of a Grand Theft Auto video game.
Hey, Dad. What’s up? You good? The Braves are doing well this season.
Warner Home Vidoe does good by Cloud Atlas’s technical skill.
The Big Wedding couldn’t possibly be more square.
Robert Redford’s film is blindly cocooned by its own nostalgic self-regard.
A certain tendency of the American cinema is to confuse dramatic seriousness with moral seriousness.
Arbitrage is a distinctive, well-acted edition to the subgenre of thriller devoted to the American white-collar scumbag.