Handsome and gruesome, El Conde takes a satirical look at the life and death(s) of tyrannical dictator Pinochet, but its poor pacing and flippant attitude means it lacks bite.
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With The Zone of Interest, director Jonathan Glazer delivers another surprising, arty and artful take on an established genre that is determined to provoke and disturb. It's monumental.
Steve McQueen’s dissection of his adopted city’s war history is a long, but valuable and vital testament to the history’s endurance. It never ends.
Despite the investment of the cast, The Whale needs a director more in tune with the material, and a rewrite to feel less insincere.
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest dissection of human desires and dramas is potentially over-produced and over-long, but is more than worth seeing for the best performance of Emma Stone's career to date.
With a strong cast and a purposefully confrontational narrative, Paul Schrader proves that, even in his 80s, he's lost none of his bite.
Jeanne du Barry is a handsome but largely empty costume drama, not worthy for the notoriety of its stars.
While arguably Michael Mann's most conventional film since Ali, Ferrari continues his record of exploring complicated men stylishly and intelligently.
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With the release of Tár on Blu-ray and on demand, we explore how director Todd Field portrays a character running out of time and losing control.