Norman Bates is not a psychopath, but these chilling movie characters certainly are.

Knight of Cups follows the same paths Malick has taken before, and with much less insight.

Teems with self-awareness about the complexity of Wall Street while using that opportunity to inject dark humor into what’s otherwise a frighteningly bleak reality.

[xrr rating=3.0/5]David O. Russell has made a career in finding the comedy even in the direst situations. Take the opening scene of his newest film, American Hustle. We see Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), fat and horribly balding and just out of bed, meticulously working his comb-over back into place. Using everything from a comb to glue, Irving works his remaining …

Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. Christopher Nolan’s films entertain viewers with their well-dressed neo-noir style and narrative complexity, but below the surface they’re also about creation – often at the mercy of near self-destructive obsession. Just as a brief sampling, Memento’s Leonard Shelby writes a story to himself as part …

In this feature our writers defend films they feel have not received their due. For anyone who has managed to stomach American Psycho, a novel chronicling the exploits of serial-killer/businessman Patrick Bateman, the problems that come with a film adaptation are fairly obvious. How does one film or convey the increasingly violent action? Can the narrative point-of-view, as seen through …

Robert De Niro in Analyze This “We all got our jobs to do,” said Robert De Niro, probably the finest living actor, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at this month’s Golden Globes. True enough, Bob, and your paycheck you took home for Analyze This must have been enormous. De Niro’s talent is such a waste in the …