The Amateur is exciting for the way that it sustains its corkscrew tension.
The trailer goes to great lengths to emphasize that this is the last Ethan Hunt adventure.
In the end, though, Cage can only do so much to bring this hastily assembled oater to life.
Garland and Mendoza adhering to a Dogme 95-esque code of purity while making the film.
The strength of Michael Angarano’s film is that it knows how to keep things moving.
The film is about more than the real leverage that militant mass movements can exert.
Jared Hess’s film is riddled with bugs.
Laura Casabé abstracts the typical emotions of tortured teens, only to then amplify them.
The film amounts to more than a slow cinema-inflected riff on the Final Destination series.
The film embodies the cruel ironies of a woman’s declining state in story and style alike.
The film maintains a unity of thought despite its expansive, kaleidoscopic approach.
For all of its spiritedness, the film wants for a more unique sense of invention.
There’s a sense here that Shannon has a dark comedy on his hands that he can’t commit to.
The film’s half-hearted gestures to various genres leave it in a no-genre zone of sorts.
Gazer sidles up to its story cautiously, mirroring its main character’s questioning nature.
Jaume Collet-Serra spins a deeper, darker yarn than the premise suggests.
The formal experimentation of Warfare is built to pose questions, not answer them.