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.
I wish they’d left the profanity and sexual nods on the mat right along with the sweat and the blood. …
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.
The fact that all 33 miners made it out of the mine is something of a miracle. And this movie …
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 …
The Last Witch Hunter never quite even makes it to bland.
His is a story with a moralistic flare that might have stumbled in lesser hands.
Sometimes it takes a dead planet to make us appreciate the value of a single life.
An overlong frenetic freefall of a film that, for all its action, feels surprisingly bereft of drama.