A bright young man at a fancy tech company (Domhnall Gleeson) gets picked to visit the company’s founder (Oscar Isaac) in his country home, er, homey concrete fortress. There, he is introduced to Ava (Alicia Vikander), a sweet and pretty robot who might just be the world’s first Artificial Intelligence. …
John Wells follows his half-baked August: Osage County with another recipe for disaster. “You have to be a prick to make it in this business,” announces a character in most flattering terms around the same time Gordon Ramsay’s name appears in the opening credits as executive producer. That may explain …
The story of Gerda, a struggling portrait painter (Alicia Vikander) who loses a husband but gains a compelling subject — there’s nothing like a broken heart for inspiration! Of course, the losing and gaining are all of a piece, born from her man Einar’s (Eddie Redmayne) conclusion that while nature …
A bright young man at a fancy tech company (Domhnall Gleeson) gets picked to visit the company’s founder (Oscar Isaac) in his country home, er, homey concrete fortress. There, he is introduced to Ava (Alicia Vikander), a sweet and pretty robot who might just be the world’s first Artificial Intelligence. …
True to “My Life on the Road,” the 2015 autobiography that director Julie Taymor uses for inspiration, a good portion of the film takes place in Greyhounds and train cars, their wheels a rolling throughline linking past with present. It’s not uncommon to find two performers cast as the same …
What happens when “complicated” gives way to “convoluted.” It’s 10 years since super-amnesiac CIA super-agent Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) learned the awful truth that he volunteered to become a mindless government assassin, and now he is living off the grid, tortured by guilt and punching people for money. Only maybe …
After a tour of killing Jerrys in the Great War, bachelor Tom (Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender) returns to Australia, where he plans on settling down as a lighthouse keeper. Isabel (Oscar winner Alicia Vikander) is the town looker, making her, in accordance with Hollywood’s rule of keeping up surface appearances, …
What does it say when they set out to make a Cold War caper and they wind up casting a Brit (Henry Cavill) as the American, an American (Armie Hammer) as the Russian, and a Swede (Alicia Vikander) as the...well, not a Swede? Answer: not much, which is okay, since …
It ain't easy out there for an Enlightenment physician in medieval-minded 18th-century Denmark. You have the people — so in need of your tender regard for the masses, yet so easily led astray by monsters who play on their fear and superstition! You have the king — such a trusting …
True Grit, R.I.P.D., The Giver, and now this schlocky bit of medieval Young Adult adventure. At this point, it's tempting to wonder if Jeff Bridges accepts roles chiefly on the basis of whether or not he'll get to sport grizzly facial hair and talk funny. Here, he plays a spook: …
Vera Brittain's memoir of a woman's experience during World War I seems perfect for a modern-day historical drama. Well, perhaps "suitable" would be a better word. Or maybe "correct" — entirely appropriate, but without too much gutwrenching or heartbreaking. Headstrong young Englishwoman (an interesting if not quite compelling Alicia Vikander) …
Subtitle: What if the tomb raider…didn’t want to raid tombs at all? For a while, it looked like director Roar Uthaug was going to deliver a video game movie that transcended the genre, mostly through the neat trick of having his ass-kicking heroine be driven by the thoroughly human desire …
Subtitle: What if the tomb raider…didn’t want to raid tombs at all? For a while, it looked like director Roar Uthaug was going to deliver a video game movie that transcended the genre, mostly through the neat trick of having his ass-kicking heroine be driven by the thoroughly human desire …
Subtitle: What if the tomb raider…didn’t want to raid tombs at all? For a while, it looked like director Roar Uthaug was going to deliver a video game movie that transcended the genre, mostly through the neat trick of having his ass-kicking heroine be driven by the thoroughly human desire …
Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) tries his hand at another period drama, this one set 17th century Amsterdam and starring Alicia Vikander as a young woman trapped in an arranged marriage who falls for a struggling painter her own age. Christoph Waltz and Dane DeHaan star as the husband …