Reisz’s exceptional biopic cleverly avoids most of the pitfalls of the genre.
It’s an occasionally amusing and insightful beltway satire that’s ultimately undone by its conventional mise-en-scène and predictable plot.
As a filmmaker, Landais is trying to run before he’s even figured out how to walk.
The film’s derivatively stylish cinematography laboriously hints at un-broached turmoil and passion.
Michelangelo Antonioni’s film is an inquiry into the modernist concern of what art is and how it affects life.
The piercing supplements manage to contextualize an essential film without smothering it with over-explanation.
Of Bennett Miller’s many directorial feats, his canniest is his depiction of the precariousness of bonds, and how those bonds can shift, drastically yet almost imperceptibly.
Enervated to the point of somnolence, Miller’s film squanders inherently intriguing material.
With the film, Lee Daniels quietly pushes his talent for hashing out visceral, violent emotions into unexpected dramatic terrain.
Part end-of-life romance, part grossly manipulative mush, the film tries to stare grief and mortality in the face while practically shitting rainbows.
This more-than-game Sherlock Holmes pastiche makes its high-definition debut on Blu-ray sporting a solid transfer.
It almost seems like AMPAS is trying to pull one over on us—or, at the very least, sneak one past us while we’re not looking.
A savage action movie that somehow manages to preserve the heart of the Bard’s work while reducing his words to devastating shards.
Sometimes, the controlling principles of a Blu-ray production match those of its subject.
So it is that the one year we didn’t stick to our frilliest-always-wins guns here, we came up short.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who truly understands how the Oscars work that the still above isn’t from Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation.
Which performance will land Jessica Chastain her first Oscar nomination?
Seven finalists remain in the race for Best Makeup, the category that’s poised to prove just how strong a frontrunner The Artist actually is.
This adaptation of the Bard’s tragedy is contemporized via Paul Greengrass-esque faux-doc aesthetics.
Miss Bala wears on its sleeve that its resilient heroine represents the Mexican body politic.