Quentin Tarantino is one of those directors that thoroughly divides people: You either love to hate him, or hate to love him.
By a certain point, Raoul Peck’s Shakespearean grandeur turns to shrugging ludicrousness.
The narrative feints this way and that without staying long enough with any of them to hook us in.
It has a handful of gratifying moments and nuances you don’t expect from the genre, starting with girls who eat and curse like boys.
It feels obnoxiously privileged to mock a movie haunted by the ghosts of so many real people.
It feels obnoxiously privileged to mock a movie haunted by the ghosts of so many real people.
Both All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard are the kind of movies that one hopes, 60 years later, would seem like dated time capsules from an earlier era.
Sesame Street was a safe, warm place for a child to be, but like real life, serious issues would crop up at random.
The Survivors is not simply a showcase for Robin Williams’ wacky antics.
Long after the film’s smart, case-specific rallying cries dissipate, we may find that its structure subtly raises perennial questions about justice.
André Téchiné may not be part of the nuclear family of neo-neorealists, but he’s definitely a member of the tribe.
Kasdan’s film, containing respectful homages to a lot of the great westerns, is neither the summing up nor the revival that Kasdan wanted it to be.
It pains me to admit just how obnoxious The Pest is because it has all the ingredients of the kind of guilty pleasure I love.
One of the things I love about New York is how easy it is to find good movies here.
The film is a portrait of the core of a nation in possibly permanent exile.
The Return of the Living Dead is in fact the real deal.
European producers focus almost entirely on the money and the administration of the money.
A too-long exploration of too many blind alleys, Cropsey pulls out all the scary-movie stops.
The film is a sharp, damning cry against societal indifference to the increasingly dire circumstances of India’s farmers.
The pacing is great and there are many interesting shots and uses of the camera, but nothing too showy.