Smart People is—nah, too easy.
Ever been to a pompous party made worse by some earnest dope strumming acoustic ballads to a small crowd of fawning admirers?
Spider-Man 3 sees Spider-Man as a rock star who allows the public’s adulation of his heroism to go to his head.
Judge’s nervy futuristic comedy survives studio cluelessness on its way to cult appreciation.
By refusing to distance itself from its targets, Mike Judge’s brand of satire risks being mistaken for what it’s satirizing.
The film timidly lands on an underdeveloped middle ground between skewering and embracing mass-market consumerism.
Hill suggests that the western’s slow decline was probably due to two factors.
More than anything, Sideways furthers the impression that Alexander Payne is a great structuralist filmmaker.