Secrets of a Soul
Pabst's surrealistic dream sequence is what the film's known for, and it does have some creepy and audacious moments. more…
The More the Merrier
… is sustained by three actors who are all masters of comic timing. more…
Yakuza Graveyard
… is like a '70s Martin Scorsese film on speed. It's brash and bold, almost feverish, and makes no excuses. more…
Four in the Morning
… tells three stories concurrently, all taking place at the same time in the shipping district along the Thames River. more…
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
No narration and no context. Just Zappa, in a succession of interviews covering three decades, speaks for himself. more…
Kubo and the Two Strings
A stock hero's journey peopled with characters who are specific, flawed and interesting. more…
Knife in the Water
Deep-focus camera shots, startling in intensity and inventiveness. more…
Frogs
Some scenes are so amateurishly written, you can see the actors trying to maintain a straight face. more…
Hell Is Sold Out
Herbert Lom is probably best known in the US for his role as the Chief Inspector in Blake Edwards' Pink Panther movies. He's funny in those. more…
A Mighty Wind
This mockumentary is successful not only because it's subtle, funny and sharp; it's also authentic. more…
Slightly Scarlet
A lurid '50s fever dream, hot and saturated, one of those artifacts which go about their unintentional business of squelching romantics' views of what the era was like. more…
Around the World in 80 Days
Little of Jules Verne's droll and satirical observations in the book survive in the film. Nearly every scene is shortened, trivialized, and made less effective in Michael Todd's movie. more…
Behind Locked Doors
… is literally packed with talent. more…
A Serious Man
Rarely has such dire material been handled with such a funny, ironic touch. more…
The Good Dinosaur
I won't even mention the hallucinogenic sequence of Arlo and Spot accidentally ingesting psychedelics. more…
Irrational Man
There's slight and then there's fatally flawed, bordering on bad. more…
Jupiter Ascending
For a movie so reliant on detailed, expensive action sequences, those sequences are noteworthy for being edited so quickly they're nearly all incomprehensible — it's just a blur of color and shapes. more…
It Follows
… that the state of horror films could be better. more…
’71
Cinders and flames in a world of limited color and danger in the dark and unseen corners … more…
Gimme Shelter
Without sound or music, the scene looks like a vision from Dante. more…
Inherent Vice
… just lies there. more…
¡Que Viva México!
It's strange to see the same kind of camera angles and staging we associate with Russian propaganda used to explore a land so different in temperament. more…
The Homesman
Humor and tragedy, sickness and joy are intertwined in this western, with a heavy melancholy resting over the landscape, even when sunny. more…
Interstellar
Interstellar's a pleasing, captivating, immersive film with much amazing imagery along the lines of Nolan's Inception. more…
Nightcrawler
This film belongs to Gyllenhaal, who lost thirty pounds for the role and plays it with unblinking, gaunt intensity. His mixture of remarkable self-confidence with morally unhinged business practices makes for a creepy persona. more…
Godzilla
No one pays to see a Godzilla movie without wanting to see mindless destruction on a monumental scale, preferably with some monster-on-monster action mixed in. more…
Fury
… excels in capturing the detailed, visceral, feet on the ground experience of combat, at the expense of literary themes. more…
The Wolf of Wall Street
It's time to face the fact that the Martin Scorsese we used to know, the one who made intimate, quirky, mid-level movies like The King of Comedy, After Hours and Taxi Driver, is long gone. more…
Gone Girl
If you enjoy twisted, you won't be disappointed. more…
Lone Survivor
Peter Berg makes visceral every bullet taken, every bone-crunching, leg-shattering plunge, fall, and plummet. Not a film to watch with your grandma. more…
The Drop
Tom Hardy has proved to be one of the most promising actors working and he so loses himself here in the role of Bob Saginowski that I forgot I was watching Tom Hardy. more…
Magic in the Moonlight
Every character, major and minor, is present for one purpose only: to hammer home Woody Allen's ideas. more…
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