Mob Land‘s aim is seemingly to give audiences a Deep Southern neo-noir heist thriller, and it just about does so, but without any distinction.

As every component of Anderson’s films become more and more distilled, as he gets better at the very specific thing he does, his films feel more and more alien within the landscape of cinema — at least to those yet uninitiated to his films.

Despite its stellar cast, Maggie Moore(s) is unfortunately as bland as Hamm’s brown small town police uniform

Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean is a complex look at gay life in late 1980s Britain, specifically under the conservative tide caused by Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic policies.

In addition to being entertaining, absorbing, and thought-provoking, Sanctuary is also rather audacious.

The Master Gardener is more than worth watching thanks to its engrossingly subdued plot and goosebump inducing performances.

However short-sighted and questionable some of the conduct portrayed in BlackBerry can be, this is a dramedy that makes for a solidly entertaining two hours’ viewing.

Somewhere in Queens turns out to be a cliché-evading, deftly-written, sincerely heartwarming winner.

Polite Society blends many genres, borrowing specific elements and clichés from each of them, and what results is a film that is all over the place, for better and worse.