Soul Kitchen wants to be a light comedy about a good guy who gets a series of bad breaks.
A well-done character study can teach us a lot about how someone else thinks and experiences the world.
This video essay about the role of guns in film is presented by Capital and Matt Zoller Seitz.
Gangster movies usually come in one of three flavors.
Most sadly, The Wiz collapses under the weight of its creators’ own good intentions.
Who needs perfection when you’ve got this much sheer, joyful grace?
A story like this could easily get sticky-sweet.
The early going of Mad Men’s fourth season has given us a whole lot of Don Draper and his nonstop cycle of disintegration and reinvention.
I have always had mixed feelings about Todd Solondz’s films, which I expect is exactly what he wants.
This has been a good summer for something we haven’t seen much in the movies: the female midlife crisis.
In all of his films, Todd Haynes takes elements of gaudy tabloid culture and warps them to his own purposes.
The film is an upper, thanks to its inventive visuals, crisp editing, and constant stream of wry observational barbs.
The Jornada Brasileira de Cinema Silencioso, just completing its fourth year, is one of the world’s most prominent silent film festivals.
The film evokes a time and place and state of mind with exquisite precision.
Other movies may have done talk this well, but I’ve never seen one do it better.
At the film’s core is a real-life murder mystery that’s being investigated by the director of a women’s center.
The production is far from a party and more akin to a long soiree in which the cool people haven’t arrived yet.
Johnnie To’s trademark standoffs are the best thing about Vengeance.
As Nolan’s career has progressed, he’s lost sight of how to make those moments feel organic.
Airplane! suggests a Marx Brothers farce wrapped around an Arthur Hailey melodrama and given a couple of whirls in the blender.