The abundance of great extras on this release of The Celebration may violate the Dogme 95 “Vow of Chastity,” but it’s a fitting tribute.
Thomas Vinterberg’s latest, like The Hunt, is ultimately a parable about breaking a social contract.
It sketches an imperiled family worth caring about, but any goodwill is soon weathered by wave after wave of contrivance.
The film is in part an exceedingly black comedy that parodies proper society’s eager, self-righteous naïveté on the subject of its children.
If you think Pedro Almodóvar is too deep, this kiddie-pool Spanish dud is for you.
Where was Radley Metzger when you needed him?