Drama Rated PG-13
“…like being caught in a barbed-wire fence of ethical dilemmas.
Drama Rated R
“What’s missing here is Almodovar’s most distinguishing characteristic: compassion.
Drama Rated NR
It’s clear, very early on, we’re not in the hands of a “narrative” filmmaker. Indeed, first-time feature director Steve McQueen comes from an experimental film background, and he brings that formalistic aesthetic to bear on a story that in other, more melodramatic hands could have led to Oscar grandstanding. Hunger details the 1981 prison strikes
The end of the world, as witnessed by a manic-depressive bride. That’s a pithy way of describing Melancholia, yet the movie has a remoteness, a staginess, that doesn’t allow you to get much closer. As another piece of nihilistic provocation from Danish writer-director Lars von Trier, it’s never anything less than arresting, but always in
Even with the spanking, this is a bit of a bore. Despite its seemingly perfect match of filmmaker and subject – bodily minded director David Cronenberg and the sexually charged rise of psychoanalysis – A Dangerous Method is further evidence that movies are most interestingly about something when they aren’t so obviously about it. Based
"…manages to balance a spiritual sense of grace with the earthy eye of a here-and-now realist."
Drama Rated NC-17
"…rough, sickening stuff – not in a morally offensive way, but in the way that it lays bare the rot that can fester in the human soul."
"…a series of increasingly alarmed faces looking at papers and computer screens."
“Hunter S. Thompson hated phonies; in a lot of ways, The Rum Diary is one.
“A kinder, gentler, less interesting Alexander Payne.
