The film loses its footing on the story’s difficult emotional terrain, taking a safer detour into areas associated with achy-breaky teen romances.
Edited to induce seizures, Morning Light should appeal to fans of MTV and water sports.
First-time filmmaker Megumi Sasaki’s documentary Herb & Dorothy is as simple and straightforward as the subjects of its title.
Wendy Keys succeeds in limning an engaging portrait of an artist and mentor who’s spent a lifetime affirming the power of art to inform and delight.
Director Catherine Jeffs lucked out when she scored Amy Adams and Emily Blunt to co-star in her mildly pleasing dramedy Sunshine Cleaning.
This DVD joint isn’t very fat.
The Lodger is so mired in ineptitudes that the weather is the least of its problems.
Rod Lurie’s focus is on lean, intelligent storytelling, while keeping his righteous anger worked seamlessly into plotting and character development.
Race, gender, tradition, politics and sexuality get thrown together into a bright but bland masala mix in Shamim Sarif’s debut feature.
What Roy Disney and colleagues should’ve done was pitch their project on an epic scale on a season’s worth of television.
A dollop of Saving Private Ryan, a dash of Letters from Iwo Jima, and a sprinkle of Italian neorealism characterize the style and sentiment of the film.
Romanian-Israeli documentarian Shimon Dotan takes a hard-nosed look at the social and political culture of Palestinians doing time in a high-security Israeli prison.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Mo’Nique as lovers? Now we’ve seen everything.
Shadowboxer is best aborted, and flushed away as one of 2006’s more unpleasant memories.
The film has the lightness of touch and narrative fluidity that’s pure, inimitable Ray.
The mannered goofiness of The Chess Players echoes the pastoral comedy of Days and Nights In the Forest.
Some of Birth’s brighter sequences readily show off the beautiful textures of Harris Savides’s incredible cinematography, but the darker sequences aren’t very flattering.
The Tracker follows an admirably clear-cut narrative line, without hedging or redundant plotting.
While this DVD edition does justice to the film’s sinister color scheme, the cast and crew commentary leaves much to be desired.
Ignore We Don’t Live Here Anymore’s literary pretence and focus on its truly remarkable performances.