Pat Brown

Touch Me Not‘s commingling of narrator and narrative, character and actor, fiction and documentary suggests that cinema itself is capable of being a manner of touch, the site of a nebulous and freeing encounter between people.

Bumblebee exudes some of the tediousness of a reformed sinner who decries hedonism, trying hard to convince us that it now believes in something.

Often divertingly colorful and busy to a fault, the film seems to dare us to mock the world of comics' most risible superhero.

When the devastating quake finally strikes, it creates a truly suspenseful scenario of vertiginous falls and last-minute saves.

As it proceeds through a series of teary reconciliations in the last half-hour of its 110-minute run time, the film's didactic drama begins to grate, its treacly emotions feeling increasingly unearned.

The fabric of the fantasy world depicted in the film lacks the cohesion of its central theme about appreciating one’s place in a family tree.

Despite convincing performances, the film is hampered by its stylistic and moral conventionality.

By uniting these four interviews in particular, Claude Lanzmann emphasizes the impossibility of moral clarity in the unthinkable circumstances into which Germany’s invasion of Eastern Europe threw its Jewish population.

The dichotomy represented by Jonathan and John is too clean for the film's exploration of a divided psyche to ever feel particularly complex.

Director and co-writer Hannah Fidell's film never finds the right mix of meaningful parable and sophomoric romp.

Margarethe von Trotta's documentary reminds us of the reasons for Bergman's continued influence on cinema today.

The film’s slow reveal of its fantastical elements, which evoke the erratic, dreamlike strangeness of folk tales, makes them all the more unsettling.

Antonio Méndez Esparza crafts a revealing portrait of life as lived under a regime of race and class oppression.

Derek Jarman’s 1990 film isn’t without hope that we can regrow a paradise.

It suggests that a war’s horrors were the ultimate unassimilable experience of the shadowy depths of the human mind.