Twitching with the same unease that characterizes his performances, Eisenberg’s directorial début is taut with unhappiness but allows itself to be funny.
The “La La Land” director’s over-the-top paean to silent Hollywood, starring Margot Robbie as a hopeful actress and Brad Pitt as an affable superstar, amounts to a frenzied scrapbook.
Darren Aronofsky’s film is earnestly determined to present obesity as tragedy, but its star manages to project a sweetness of nature through the layers of prosthetic fat.
Rian Johnson’s sequel to “Knives Out,” in which Daniel Craig returns as the sybaritic detective Benoit Blanc to solve a murder mystery, is extravagant but none too sturdy, and curiously cold to the touch.
In the director’s portrait of a budding filmmaker’s childhood, movies are revealed to be a dual-purpose art: a technical adventure that throws an emotional punch.
Martin McDonagh treads familiar turf in his black comedy set in rural Ireland in 1923, but the performances of Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, and Kerry Condon give everything life.