Eggers’s cinema has an aesthetic ravenousness about it that’s both stylish and sequestered.
‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow’ Review: A Trenchant Reality Show
The drama of the film is a literal life and death struggle that’s exceedingly of this moment.
In Guadagnino’s latest, the queer, tragically, becomes quotidian.
The film is a handsomely mounted production in which much of the filth feels stage-managed.
Warner’s disc looks magnificent in native 4K with Dolby Vision enhancement.
In a Violent Nature Review: A Thrillingly Cryptic and Evocative Act of Genre Resuscitation
Think of Chris Nash’s film as Béla Tarr doing an unholy doc-fiction hybrid about Crystal Lake.
‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Review: George Miller’s Prequel Will Get Your Motor Running
The film attests to Miller’s enduring aptitude for utilizing the ridiculous to achieve the sublime.
‘The Color Purple’ Review: Blitz Bazawule’s Fawning Movie Musical Is Echo-Chamber Karaoke
The film lacks the passion and the perspective to make the words and tunes truly resonate.
‘Godzilla Minus One’ Review: A Perverse Throwback That Will Satiate Your Lizard Brain
For all the unbridled destruction, Godzilla Minus One remains perversely light and fun.
The sense of concurrent being and non-being is key to the Michael Mann aesthetic and ethos.
Scorsese’s engrossing historical thriller is a three-hander on an epic canvas.
‘Eureka’ Review: Lisandro Alonso’s Intoxicating, Time-Hopping Reverie of Indigenous Realities
The metaphysical realm governs the non-ideal world inhabited by each of Eureka’s characters.
The Pigeon Tunnel Review: Errol Morris and John le Carré Take on a World of Contradictions
The sense of getting nowhere proves crucial to grasping le Carré in all his impish glory.
Bonello uncannily utilizes burdensome signs and wonders for maximum insight and agitation.
Kidnapped Review: Marco Bellocchio’s Grandiose View of a 19th Century Vatican Scandal
The story is kept at a stress-inducing simmer, with occasional surges of operatic emotion.
Jacques Rivette’s Secret Defense feels in many ways like a culmination.
The film is a down-in-the-muck advert for an ultimately dewy-eyed vision of the silver screen.
For all the thrills provided by its pioneering pageantry, the film leaves you with a soul-nagging query: What price entertainment?
The film is an illustration of the transition from the ethical pliancy of youth to the moral discernment of adulthood.
Straining to be a YA spin on Trouble Every Day, Bones and All barely eclipses Twilight.