Aki Kaurismäki’s latest is amusing and humane in good measure.
Unpredictable twists, a gathering sense of dread, and the tender humanism that infuse it all make Farhadi’s film absorbing.
The series shares with Sátántangó an interest in dissecting a social environment, uncovering unsavory human truths in the process.
The exterior mirrors the interior and vice versa in Melancholia.
If nothing else, the film is a terrific example of a minimalist style employed with near-maximum effectiveness.
The most striking thing about Carnage is how much funnier it is than its source material.
The apolitical nature of Incendies is strangely more irksome than the film’s tempestuous and highly controversial final twist.
The Cybermen part of the plot is wrapped up fairly quickly, as the Doctor simply walks into their ship and confronts them.
This truly ensemble piece surprisingly puts a fresh spin on some familiar material.
“Thankless Thing” could easily have fit alongside the magnificently theatrical Smother’s tender asphyxiations.
That Guy Maddin’s “nostalgia style” calls to mind films of yesteryear is only half the story.
I can think of worse tasks than judging films in the elegant Basque city of San Sebastián, known as Donostia to the locals.
It’s hard to look at Tuesday Weld’s career without feeling a tiny pang of regret for what could have been.
It gives the initial impression that it will be nothing more than a creepy “monster of the week” adventure for the Doctor and his friends.
A Mysterious World might be the most auteur-y object to emerge from the festival’s “City to City” Buenos Aires-themed program.
Are water buffalos this year’s Ishtar?
A Golden Novak Djokavic, in recognition of otherworldly improvement in 2011, goes to Yorgos Lanthimos for Alps.
Wuthering Heights is designed to hack away at the ornamental crust created by years of genteel literary adaptations.
Low Life’s perpetual twilight evokes a space between the late films of Robert Bresson and Pedro Costa’s digital works.
Moneyball confronts co-writer Aaron Sorkin with a milieu in which he has trouble being putatively witty.