Ezra sees itself as a kind of rebuke to films like Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
The hot streak for Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon cools with My Father’s Dragon.
Till taps into a deeper well of emotions than most biopics.
Kate Novack’s documentary is an act of template filmmaking, designed for maximum accessibility.
Gilbert exposes a wealth of unsuspected pain and tenderness beneath Gottfried’s often thorny exterior.
With this classic Hollywood thriller, Altman proved that career rehabilitation can spring from stylishly biting the hand that feeds you.
Above all of the more modest achievements in structure and casting looms Zucker’s garish comedic sensibilities.
A film so overworked to ensure mass-market appeal that it loses the charming oddness and loose goofiness that has allowed these characters to endure.
Joe Berlinger’s Under African Skies is a positive breather after the heaviness of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.
This is a largely solemn affair, often verging on morbidity in its elongated deathwatch.
“Hakuna Matata” would mean never having to be subjected to The Lion King ever again, much less having Simba’s growing pains coming at your face in 3D.
In The Lion King, spectacle dominates meaning to frequently reductive effect.
The film’s events play out like an amiable, if unmoving, rehash of Princess Mononoke.
Spielberg’s film is indeed a heartbreaker, but it’s one that has been calibrated to do so in every facet of the production.
Tyler Perry’s histrionic For Colored Girls is purple in more ways than one.
The film arrives on Blu-ray with a befittingly humble and loving audio and visual transfer.
Here’s another introductory DVD into the Star Trek universe, released to coincide with the theatrical opening of J.J. Abram’s new film.
There’s no sense of magic and danger to this bland animation.
The Lion King is loaded with hoary bibilical references (rays of light, burning bushes) and Shakespearean shout-outs, but that’s all they are.
Every sound, line of dialogue, and cloying musical number comes through loud and clear.