This cinematic interpretation of Shakespeare deserves to be seen on the big screen.

“Slow West” is neither clever enough to be a good revisionist Western nor entertaining enough to be a satisfying genre exercise.

For all The Counselor‘s flaws, at least Ridley Scott’s latest isn’t boring.

12 YEARS A SLAVE carries director Steve McQueen’s interest in the demands of the body to a logical level: what of the demands on man unfairly imprisoned?

Like Alien, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus poses questions about the cycle of life, and the anxiety of birth and death. But this autumnal action picture asks an even more basic question: Where did we come from?

Some biopics are destined to end up as educational supplements for teachers looking to engage students in a subject with a little more entertainment value than a lecture can provide. David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method at times almost seems to be playing directly to that market. This loose history of the evolution of the working relationship between two of the 20th century’s most prominent psychoanalysts — Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) –practically follows a Psych 101 syllabus: Freud’s obsessions with both relating all psychological issues back to sex; his rigid categorizations; Jung’s uncertainty about those simplistic assessments; Jung’s fascination with parapsychological phenomenon and the resulting battle for the heart of psychology as hard science or metaphysical theorizing.

Addictions are time-consuming disorders. There’s the time spent finding the object(s) of your addiction, the time spent actually engaging in them, the time spent dealing with the highs and lows, and the time required to cover up and compensate for all of those activities in your straight life. Of course, life in general can be hard enough to keep everything balanced; add in an addiction, and there’s that many more balls to keep in the air. Steve McQueen’s new film, Shame, shows what happens when they all come crashing down.