This is a film that has a terrific target, but the focus is so dreadful it’s insulting. This especially rings true when it compares to its predecessor The Ten Commandments at a time when the quality of human being is demonstratively more substantial than it is now. That, for instance, an audience had the patience to be able to sit through an almost four hour epic, and had the maturity to be....

  This is a serious but predictable examination of the life of a Hollywood movie star and the humanity that is robbed from him. This is as accurate as we can expect coming from someone as intimate to this lifestyle as Ms. Coppola is. And it is not a wonder then that we hear about drug addictions, drug overdoses, and suicidal attempts that come out of those humans who are simply....

  I enjoy Lars von Trier chiefly because he knows how to be experimental with film. He is audacious yet it is with the intent to tell a story, to be metaphorical versus sheer visceral. So yes, his images bend toward novelty, but it is in the larger, grander composition of conveying a meaningful symbol that he places his motion pictures within that makes him a gem of a....