The narrowed scope of Parker’s film recalls that of Mel Gibson’s Braveheart.
How astonishing is it then that the film’s greatest failure—its inability to tell a cohesive story—is also one of its greatest achievements?
While Short Circuit 2 may be dumb, there’s no slickness or meanness to its stupidity.
To choose only 10 films for this list was a task at once simple and impossible.
The Help represents a pitiful lack of progress, and that’s hardly an indictment of the ways its characters and events are depicted on screen.
Canons form based on availability.
This installment focuses on nonfiction film, the hazards of independent distribution, and Cheshire’s own filmmaking debut, a documentary titled Moving Midway.