The new backwoods thriller wants to be a solemn, occult-tinged parable on how real-life evil will always be more damaging and destructive than mythical evil. But it comes out looking like a banal, buffoonish mess.
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Thirty Sundances ago, the Weinsteins picked up the shared winners of the Dramatic Filmmakers Trophy and launched two contrasting careers.
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The skillful playing of this musical adaptation can’t make up for the sheer miscalculation at its center.
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The new film from Ava DuVernay is a well-meaning letdown looks like it was made to play in every middle school that isn’t scared to show students something that resembles critical race theory.
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Twenty years ago, Miramax dropped the filthiest, funniest gift into theaters – following even more behind-the-scenes drama than usual.
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The 1988 coming-of-age tale ‘Cinema Paradiso’ was practically patient zero when it came to Miramax taking a middlebrow foreign film and turning it into a much-adored, Oscar-winning hit.
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Colman Domingo has a blast as gay Black activist Bayard Rustin in George C. Wolfe’s “Rustin,” quite possibly the jazziest civil rights movie ever made.
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Netflix’s bio-documentary of Sylvester Stallone is undeniably entertaining, but its omissions are as telling as its inclusions.
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Woody Allen’s Miramax movies were a quartet of dirty-minded, star-studded screwball comedies where a post-scandal Allen was at his most invincible — and most unrepentant.
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Raoul Peck’s “Silver Dollar Road” is yet another well-made documentary about Black people getting screwed.
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‘Cassandro,’ starring the eternally baby-faced Gael Garcia Bernal, is a captivating portrait of an LGBTQ athlete persevering in an homophobic, oppressive industry (and culture). Unfortunately, it’s also sus as hell.
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As ‘Farewell My Concubine’ gets an uncut, 30th-anniversary re-release this weekend, we look back at the Cannes-winning, politically charged melodrama that was trimmed by Chinese sensors AND Harvey Weinstein.
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