The director’s visual sense doesn’t fail him; in fact, it makes the script’s more risible concepts seem more palatable than they should.
Reflections and rhymes abound in David Lynch’s Inland Empire.
Bobby is an overly earnest bit of hero worship buried amidst an especially pedestrian, multi-narrative melodrama.
This is in honor of critic and blogger Andy Horbal’s Dec 1-3 salute to criticism.
Carver is one several cops and ex-cops taking an extracurricular interest in individual kids on the street.
Battlestar Galactica does not do flashbacks well.
As “The Impossible Planet” drew to a close and “The Satan Pit” begins, two deaths occur: A pair of redshirts take it for the team.
How to explain the generous reviews granted to the latest film by Tony Scott, the meister of the overbearing, trashy exploitation action genre?
The Nativity Story never quite becomes more than efficient religious programming for a built-in audience.
It happens in a moment. Her eyes flick down, she takes a quick peek, and I start laughing.
The U.S. Office retained the basic setup until this season.
The Fountain is both impossible to dismiss outright and, unfortunately, equally difficult to take seriously.
The quartet of eighth-grade boys at the center of The Wire have their own way of dealing with bad police.
The Fountain is a gusher of poetic imagery, extravagant yet controlled.
Richard Linklater isn’t adept at seeing multiple narratives through to their various plausible conclusions.
This is a story of returns, just as the title tells us, but its chief subject is feminine (and provincial) rites, rituals and customs.
The boys used to clown like they had nothing to lose. Now they’re protecting an investment.
And so we face another imponderable with the news that director Robert Altman has passed away at age 81.
The funny thing about this Bond series is that they’re always trend-chasing and they’re typically a year or two too late.
“Reboot” is the word reviewers have been using to describe the latest Bond film, and it’s hard to avoid because that’s what Casino Royale is.