The candy-coloured elements of the 1977 original have gone but, perhaps inevitably for Disney, traces of sticky sentiment remain in this otherwise enjoyably earthy re-imagining.
A fine, well-made and thought-provoking film... Nonetheless, something seems lacking, preventing it from being as powerful and overwhelming a piece of cinema as you think it ought.
You can turn it upside down, inside out and back-to-front and you might be able to work most of it out, but there will always be one thing that doesn't fit.
Baffling Seventies horror flick about a scary tall mortician, killer dwarfs and sci-fi spheres
I don't feel that Coscarelli has found the perfect mix of action, sci-fi and horror with this third outing to best suit the series, but it is entertaining.
The franchise becomes increasingly weird and bloody, with intriguing sci-fi bits.
Among the welter of films I am watching in the course of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, it is the images from Phantom Love that continually haunt me.
An alienated woman undertakes a strange spiritual journey.
Simmons is generally convincing but it's difficult for him to combine this with holding centre stage, especially in scenes alongside Ethan Hawke, who is cast against type as a low rent Tyler Durden and clearly enjoying every minute of it.
A young baseball pitcher struggles to cope with success.
Petzold depicts a country in shock, where everyone is trying to rediscover a sense of self and where survival may be viewed less a miracle than something unbearable in the face of so many losses.
A disfigured concentration camp survivor searches Berlin for her husband.
Despite its central character's self-centeredness and tendency to sulk, this is a charming, lighthearted film which in places is laugh-out-loud funny.
When his daughter says she will live with whichever of her divorcing parents can give her a piano, a former steelworker enlists his old colleagues and workplace facilities to make one.
Like Jan Svankmajer, the Quays blend live action and animation to create a surreal hermetic vision that is as beautifully seductive as it is chillingly inaccessible. T
Meglomaniac doctor brings together a piano tuner and a dead opera singer for his grand operatic masterpiece.
Intense and committed performances from Cho Min-soo and Lee Jung-jin combined with the oppressive atmosphere Kim creates make for a raw and very sad viewing experience.
A loan shark is confronted by a woman who claims to be his missing mother.
Often highly amusing and thought provoking... always gorgeous to look at.
Two travelling salesmen undertake a magical mystery tour of suffering, indulgence and melancholy as they attempt to sell novelty items to strangers and bring a little cheer into their lives.
There may be no chemistry between Rock and Doris and the jokes may be tired, tedious and misplaced, but hindsight will always provide a warped perspective.
The first of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex lite rom-coms.
Pincus treads that tricky terrain of having a protagonist who is deeply sceptical of the self-serious outsiders he meets while at the same time allowing for the possibility that it is he who may be in the wrong.
An interior decorator who cares or his ailing father falls for a karate instructor.
Although some elements don't work too well, namely the lacklustre, almost prosaic direction of Levy, it survives with a lot of positives, not least the return to maniacal form of its star, The Grey Haired One.
Steve Martin attempts to emulate Peter Sellers as incompetent French policeman.
Sampat is a subject so complex and compelling, so fearless and flawed, that in the end the documentary itself is drawn into her irresistible orbit no less than she dominates all the people and situations around her.
Low-caste women in Uttar Pradesh fight back against social injustice in this documentary.
Despite being uneven, this is worth seeing for Withers' full-blooded performance and its delightfully cynical scenes that skewer notions of idyllic Victorian family life.
The wife of a pub landlord hatches a plot to escape his clutches with the help of the unwitting son of a domineering chemist.
A charming portrait of this complex man, this film is also a hymn to rural Italy and to a way of life that has remained largely unchanged for centuries.
The story of a cemetery attendant whose good luck is bad for business.
In between helicopter shots of the glorious landscape and the slightly irritating finger-wagging, there's a good story here with a sprinkling of jaw-dropping moments.
A documentary about a County Mayo campaign against the laying of a new Shell oil pipeline.
Although the script is weak throughout and the acting of dubious quality, the heroine's no-nonsense approach is refreshing in a film of this type and, in its time, was really quite daring.
The deadly piranha are back, and this time they can fly.
A genuinely entertaining outing for the series, managing to generate both novelty and surprise while preserving all the best features of the preceding pictures.
Jack Sparrow is forced to accompany a dangerous woman and her still more dangerous ally on a daring quest to find the legendary Fountain of Youth.
Visually the film excels. There are scenes that lavish the mind's eye
Sparrow is drunk. Salazar is dead. Barbossa takes charge. The young ones are searching for the trident of Poseidon. There's a lot of water. And magic. If you wait long enough you might glimpse Keira Knightley running.
When you realise that this is based on a true story, and that the spread of HIV and AIDS has meant that similar stories are all too frequent, it becomes almost offensive that they've made such a bad film.
A custody battle for an HIV positive baby is only the beginning.
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