Anderson moves even closer to cultural curation and further from sustained storytelling.
The film is so toothless that its protagonist is ultimately about as forbidding as a warm hug.
At its best, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis taps into the frenzy that the King ignited in the world.
The end of the world may never have had less impact than it does in Miguel Sapochnik’s Finch.
The film sanctimoniously suggests that ignorance or distrust of the news is nothing new, but rather the bedrock of America’s formation.
With no vividly drawn humans on display, the action feels like rootless war play.
Brad Pitt winning here will seem like the stars are lining up given what went down when he was first nominated in 1995.
Marielle Heller takes a script that many filmmakers would turn into cringe-inducing treacle and interrogates the sentimental trappings.
Pixar’s superfluous but characteristically touching epilogue for its flagship franchise gets an equally fond send-off on home video.
The film seamlessly interweaves fun escapades and earnest emotions, but it lacks the visual power of its predecessor.
No American film since Zodiac has exhibited such a love for the way information travels than The Post.
If, as Jimmy famously tells us, there’s no crying in baseball, there’s plenty of it in baseball nostalgia.
The film is a hokily melodramatic rise-fall-redemption story with a mostly unearned patina of greater significance.
Ron Howard’s adaptation retains the essential inanity of author Dan Brown’s source material.
Sully presses the case that the complexity of the human condition distracts us from the pure dignity of a noble act.
The film is confused in conception, dreary in execution, and completely lacking in forward momentum.
Remarkably faithful, except in how it rather boldly transforms Dave Eggers’s drama into a broad comedy.
A grippingly expressive espionage yarn, another exemplary entry in Spielberg’s late-career period, receives a top-tier, must-buy transfer.
Only rarely does Steven Spielberg observe how queasily at odds our patriotism is with our humanity.
Commingling industry shoptalk with introspective insights and wrangling testimonials, the film casts an incredibly wide net.