As far as comedy goes, the humor is as sharp as ever.
Arts
Icelandic music might just be the freshest breath of air the music industry, nationally and internationally, truly needs.
It was last year, around the summer, that I realized I can’t make everything perfect.
From scene to scene more than anything else it is De Niro’s endlessly compelling performance that keeps what is otherwise an underwritten film from falling flat.
'Everything, Everything' was a sweet teen-romance story.
It’s not as if the script does the cast any favors either. Not only is every character on display a putrid combination of unlikeable and simply, egregiously stupid, but they are given no funny material with which to work.
It isn’t without its flaws, but overall it is a worthy piece of filmmaking. Its visually stunning finale could even be looked at as a promise that more familiar — at least in intensity — territory lies ahead for fans of the franchise.
For all of its faults, “Ismael’s Ghosts” succeeds at one major task: respecting film as art by serving as an homage to French New Wave cinema.
Todd Haynes brilliantly tells the cinematic tale of two deaf kids through the form of a silent movie, playing with the conventions of the genre to create multiple layers through which to explore the deaf experience.
spin bridges the scary chasm that divides hard rock from tamer genres. There is intensity there — not only in the guitar or other instrumentals, but also in the lyrics themselves.