It sets up intriguing pieces on the board, then neglects to question their positions.
The film’s plotting is haphazard, its humor is cheap, and its gore comes too late to matter.
The film feels almost episodic as it haphazardly skips through potentially interesting scenarios.
The film isn’t afraid to have its characters grapple with real-world darkness and complexity.
The film understands not just Ripley’s appeal but the compulsions that power the character.
The film doubles as a poignant last collaboration between Eleanor Coppola and her daughter.
It pairs the nail-biting tension of a sports drama with the epic sweep of a nature documentary.
This is a taut little B film that makes effective use of confined spaces.
The film spins a pulpy premise into a harrowing tale of survival.
The film is rich with existential melancholy, cynical wit, and retro-futurist visual flair.
Ava DuVernay’s film clearly articulates how the country arrived at this fractured moment.
Stan discusses how he filtered his character through his personal immigration journey.
Rob Savage’s horror film wastes no time with pleasantries.
The film feels most alive when it revels in the tension between the real and the imagined.
It offers what the historical record alone cannot: a perspective beyond what the speakers say.
Loktev discusses how she found a structure in the events she captured across filming.
At its best, it’s an eerily funny tale of the seductions of what amounts to a queer vampire.
