Karan Johar writes and directs this story of a heartbroken woman who finds comfort with a singer. In Hindi.
The opening long take and the quietly unexpected off-camera appearance by the film’s shamefaced lead character set the tone for this powerful family melodrama. For most of its running time, director and co-writer Joachim Lafosse gives the impression that he’s drilled a hole into the side of a married couple’s …
“New friends at my age mean one thing — more funerals,” scoffs Yoshiko (Kirin Kiki), the matriarch of the Shinoda family, as she attempts to work past the recent death of her husband. If American filmmakers could write characters half as observant and compelling as Hirokazu Koreeda, you’d never again …
Writer-director Kim Jee-woon brings John Le Carré-style espionage to the world of Korea's struggle for independence from Japan in the '30s. Meaning: the deepest convictions of the human heart are your only hope for surviving a world where deceit and betrayal are not only common but expected, but it's a …
A 13-year-old soldier, María (Karen Torres), is ordered to carry her commanding officer’s baby into battle with her. (The advantaged birth-mother is a fellow platoon-member.) Never once questioning the assignment is either an indication of María’s extreme loyalty to duty or a preoccupation with keeping secret her own pregnancy by …
Take away the stupidly expensive (and sometimes just stupid, or overdone, or overlong) visual effects, take away the sad necessity of hitching your story to a familiar wagon (oh, look, the first installment in this particular reboot of an established property made over a billion dollars!), take away the Disneyfied …
Ella Lemhagen directs Sarah Jessica Parker as a newly divorced mom who drags her unwilling daughter to Italy for a combination nostalgia trip/travel therapy/search for lost love.
Antoinette Jadaone directs and cowrites this Filipino romantic comedy, starting Kris Aquino as Love. In Filipino and English.
Strap Tyler Perry to a theater seat and use this to give him the Clockwork Orange treatment. The impeccably executed opening credit sequence, effortlessly distilling a 40-year marriage down to two minutes, gave reason to think this could be something more than just 2016’s annual nightmare-before-Christmas film. We’ve seen variations …
If the Nazis had invented Twitter, we wouldn’t have found ourselves in the titular predicament. After news that their only son was killed in battle, a German factory mechanic (Brendan Gleeson) and his wife (Emma Thompson) mount a grassroots campaign to take down the Third Reich, one epistle at a …
…needs lots of American worker bees to make it, a roving swarm that labors for the sake of preserving the hive and comforting the queen, and thinks of nothing else. (If that analogy seems a bit much, just take note of the preponderance of bugs through this captivating film’s generous …
Ewan McGregor's directorial debut (he also stars) takes on nothing less than the fragile impermanence of the American Dream — dreams, after all, being things up from which you must ultimately wake — even going so far as to imply that the seeds of its destruction are sown even as …