It knows a lot about art history and presumes we know nothing.

Though it plays intelligently with moral twists and turns, The Last Vermeer has a reliable ethical compass in Piller.

In the absence of any effort at character development or any realistic restraint on the mayhem that results, what we’re left with is a bloody killing spree meant to justify retaliation in kind.

In a very real way, Howard and screenwriter Vanessa Taylor have made choices to pretty up what is anything but a feel-good family story.

An intriguing if slightly schizophrenic fairy tale.

While an Italian sensibility will respond well, it may well be too much for audiences which with more restrained sensibilities who may feel it goes over the top many times in its action, in its dialogue and humour.

It should be emphasised that this is a very introspective film.

It only partially succeeds in negating the ideals of beauty pageants it would wish to argue ought not to be supported.

Gorgeous to look at with a score by John Debney, and the voices of Usher and newcomer Madalen Mills are warm and beautiful.

What makes these simple fishermen from Port Isaac a hit with everyone they meet is their absolute authenticity.

What a Mank viewer should be alert to is its achievement not just as a movie about a movie, or even moviemaking, but about the mechanics of cinema and storytelling.

Pity the poor contemporary artist who just doesn’t know what to do about religion.

The gruesome bloodletting that marks such franchises as “Friday the 13th” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street” is all-too-faithfully reproduced.

Indeed, we can choose every day who we become regardless of where we came from, but our family is still our family.

His habit of inserting old movie clips to advance the story and adding Italian pop songs to the soundtrack is somewhat jarring, albeit effective and entertaining as well.

Forest Whitaker is smashing as Jeronicus Jangle.

The Girl on the Bridge is certainly a significant resource for any group involved in suicide prevention.

This entertainment for martial arts enthusiasts contributes to the biography and specifically, the legend, of the kung fu master.

The movie is almost entirely action-dominated, and it compellingly transmits serious unease that is genuinely disquieting.

A morally dicey affair in which characters’ good and evil instincts are intertwined in a way that can only be untangled through subtle ethical assessment.