While the surface story is pretty straightforward, there glides underneath (like the white whale itself) a spiritually tinged parable.
The spiritual ideas buried in this unsettling movie can be unearthed more easily in ways that don’t involve a goat …
A messy experience, any way you want to slice it.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is no more a nice movie than Katniss is a nice person. But …
Based on an Oscar-winning Argentinean drama, this is a film that’s uncomfortable and sometimes downright difficult to watch.
Spectre’s conspicuous turn to the past also gives us a new opportunity to notice how Bond has changed over the …
It’s a cinematic construct that relishes taking long, easy moments to just study actress Saoirse Ronan’s serene face, watching her …
By the time the credits roll, Our Brand Is Crisis feels a lot like a badly run political campaign itself: …
Bill Murray has the comedically cantankerous genius-in-his-own mind shtick down pat. He unleashes it again in Rock the Kasbah, to …
The Last Witch Hunter never quite even makes it to bland.
Room can be crass and crude and incredibly uncomfortable to see. Room is also a thing of beauty—as inspiring a …
Movies are a lot like people, too. Great ones are not always good ones. Steve Jobs, rated R as it …
An overlong frenetic freefall of a film that, for all its action, feels surprisingly bereft of drama.