The core framework of The Do-Deca-Pentathlon feels a bit too basic and familiar for Mark and Jay Duplass.
Keyhole never quite indulges in full-on abstraction.
The Comedy is continuously in danger of feeling either too cute or too abrasive.
Tchoupitoulas could also be described as a work of nonjudgmental portraiture, but that wouldn’t come close to encapsulating its beauties.
Less angry and strident than recent issues documentaries like Food Inc., Eating Alabama operates on a personal ground level.
The Cabin in the Woods ultimately does exactly what it condemns, prizing schematic formula and ingenuity over real terror.
Midnight Movie has a surprisingly ambitious structure, as Hooper is aiming for the novelistic equivalent of the vérité approach that was so effective in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
At the core of 96 Minutes is Dre, the film’s only source of real, relatable emotion, thanks in large part to a compelling performance by Evan Ross.
James Gunn is uninhibited about juxtaposing different tones and styles together in Super.
Turkey Bowl is a comedy with a great ear for dialogue and a cast strong enough to make you wonder how much of it was improvised.
Green contains enough skill and vision to suggest possible triumphs ahead.
The film exudes the confidence of an artist willing to risk driving its audience up a wall in order to realize a defiantly unique personal vision.
Silver Bullets ranks as Joe Swanberg’s most intimate effort to date.
There’s something about the night that is beautiful, mysterious, and humbling all at once.
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress needs more than scientific process to keep us hanging on.
Source Code packs, in dazzlingly virtuosic fashion, two mysteries in one.
The recording of Sexsmith’s latest album, the workmanlike and pleasant Long Player Late Bloomer, serves as a loose framing device for the film.
Other directors might have played the film as social satire, but the Duplass brothers want us to laugh with, not at, their characters.
The filmmaker brothers discuss their latest feature, which is out next month from Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Cold Weather is a film with polish, wit, and impeccable comedic timing.