An Italian imitation of Night of the Living Dead, the gruesome makeup and special effects of which are slaved-over and slavered-over to an extent that makes you worry just slightly less about the moviemaker's sanity than about his soul. For entertainment, this is right up there with squashing spiders and …
Nerdy, neurotic Jesse Eisenberg, the unlikeliest Texan, narrates a postmodern post-apocalyptic road trip through a population of secondhand flesh-eating zombies, in the company of the only three surviving humans east of Bill Murray’s mansion in Beverly Hills: the Twinkie-craving Woody Harrelson and two scamming sisters, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin. …
Did enough people see Zombieland to warrant a sequel? Guess so!
Amateurish horror comedy aims to ingratiate itself through anti-Bush sentiment, lofty literary reference (Ionesco, Sartre, Nietzsche), and, on a quite different front, Jenna Jameson’s skin-stretching bosoms. The digital photography turns people into rubber dolls well before they can be turned into zombies. With Robert Englund, Joey Medina, Shamron Moore, and …
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. From writer/director Jonathan Glazer and starring Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, and Ralph Herforth.
A zookeeper (Kevin James) tries to win back the girl who dumped him (for being a zookeeper) by taking dating advice from the animals under his care. It’s hard not to imagine what could have been made from such an insane premise, especially given the anodyne goings-on of what actually …
Dramatization of the efforts by real-life Warsaw zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski to smuggle and shelter Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland. It’s easy to see the story’s appeal: a loving couple (Johan Heldenbergh and a radiantly glamorous Jessica Chastain), struggling to preserve their life’s work but still risking …
More a facial expression than a movie. The expression is called Blue Steel (but of course there already was a movie called that), the trademark crinkled-brow and puckered-lip look of the "three-time male model of the year," Derek Zoolander. (He's working on a new look called Magnum, but it isn't …
The oldening of Ben Stiller, who directs, stars, and co-writes here, continues apace. It’s not just the sort-of sad, mostly doomed attempt to recapture (silly) lightning in a (men’s fragrance) bottle 15 years after his first story about the titular superdim supermodel. (Though the few times he manages it are …
Movies about making movies need to be smart and fun if they’re going to avoid getting sucked into the black hole of their own navels. Director Pedro Morelli’s storytelling ouroboros does manage to keep things fun (and sexually frank), partly by presenting the making-a-movie part of the movie as a …
Disney’s animated arm wrestles with race relations. Here, that means predators and prey: formerly enemies (the film requires you to resist any temptation to use the modifier “natural”), they have now evolved to the point of living as peaceful neighbors in an urban metropolis. Of course, out in the sticks, …