Everything about S.J. Clarkson’s Madame Web reeks of cynicism.
Scott cares only for the set pieces, as evinced by the listless mediocrity that surrounds them.
In spite of its best intentions, the show’s reach ultimately exceeds its grasp.
Kevin Macdonald’s film never captures the spectrum of a life lived in unimaginable extremis.
As it moves through Jesus’s greatest hits, the narrative focuses less and less on Mary Magdalene until her life is beside the point.
The film’s repetitive and lifeless dialogue robs otherwise charismatic performers of distinguishing characteristics.
The series suggests the failure of U.S. intelligence in the years before 9/11 was one of imagination.
Katell Quillévéré’s film allows the sorrows of losing a life and the joys of saving it to remain congruent.
The film isn’t a mesmerizing dream so much as the enervating, and dispiriting, conception of one.
It falls back on convenience and contrivance to streamline the thornier specificities of its grand-scale narrative.
Even as Samba struggles to hold onto his identity, the film becomes entangled in an identity crisis of its own.
The Cut lives up to its title, creating two sets of strong, sometimes dueling reactions.
Asghar Farhadi navigates his complicated narrative thicket with an apparent ease, but he isn’t able to blend the brushstrokes as he has in prior films.
Farhadi utilizes living quarters as an area of adversity rather than comfort.
This dull piece of Orientalist rubbish stars Antonio Banderas in Arab-face and with an evil-man voice so cartoonish it sounds dubbed.
It’s occasionally too icily removed, but it compensates through its perpetual concern with understanding its characters and their untenable situations.
Free Men ultimately belongs firmly in the well-intentioned-misfire category, a film of modest ambition and a short grasp.
Twixt is Francis Ford Coppola in grindhouse mode.
Without pretense, Kevin Macdonald regards landscape and tribal living mythically.
A cult classic in the making, Audiard’s A Prophet receives a much better shake on DVD than its main character does in prison.