Most important, what actions help us best to refuse to yield to the evil dictates of others?

This is a shallow film about women empowerment.

A highly unusual film that works to undermine cynical perceptions of goodness.

Pro-social messages like “only by helping others can we truly help ourselves”, but such messages are integrated only casually.

Baumbach’s strength is not in showing fault on both sides (which he does), but how the strains of divorce foster negative attitudes.

A paradox; the abuse it depicts is explosively revealing, but the film is directed and produced ultimately to entertain.

Idiosyncratic and full of horror imagery, this is a film about the descent into madness of two men.

Hauser is outstanding as Jewell, compelling and moving.

Tension aptly accumulates, but Wells’ subtle nuances await a different kind of movie.

Visually stunning, well scripted, and personal, drifting over Almovodar’s past gently, hypnotically.