An eighty-minute minimal thriller about a divorcing couple (Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson) brought close again by "one last great adventure together." Returning from the anniversary celebration of one pair of parents, they stray from the interstate, experience car trouble in the middle of nowhere and dead of night, and bed ...
A sense of wistful nostalgia generated by Lindsay Buckingham’s iconic title tune playing under a series of amusing vacation photos faded along with the opening credits. Two newbies, John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, take a vacation from filmmaking and drop a holiday load in this unwatchable remake of ...
Agnes Varda, roughly represented on screen by Macha Méril, recounts the last weeks in the life of a teenage girl found frozen in a ditch. You couldn't say that the conception of the character isn't, in its own inverted way, sentimental -- more an existential beau idéal than a flesh-and-blood ...
Rimas Tuminas directs this stage adaptation of Pushkin's classic novel in verse at the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia.
Anemic European-made gangster movie, based on the Peter Maas bestseller, goes in more for yakety-yak than bang-bang. Charles Bronson is impressive for keeping his body and spirits in peak condition despite the lethargy surrounding him. Directed by Terence Young.
Harsh realities (a broken home, an absent mother, a fickle father, a domineering granny) and lofty dreams (to have a real family, to grow up to be an astronaut) of a cross-eyed eight-year-old in late-Sixties Argentina. The solitary goal of the film is to ensure that the little hero be ...
Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts, Taylor Swift. —There. That’s about all that need be said, and the ads already ...
Ken Russell lets you know early that he will be operating at his customary level of crassness (he shows you the funeral parlor employees boarding up windows with coffin lids in order to protect Valentino's body from the crush of admirers); the chief difference between this and Russell's other artist ...
From The Sheik to Abu Ghraib, this documentary looks at the way that media portrayal of Arabs and Arab culture influences public perception and even foreign policy. Or maybe it's the way foreign policy influences media portrayal. It's complicated, and not entirely pleasant.
Utterly unreal space story from Luc Besson (he of The Fifth Element fame), who seems to have watched James Cameron’s Avatar and decided he could make it sillier, more scattered, and less emotionally engaging. (Score one for Cameron’s brand of painfully earnest sentiment?) So once again, we are treated to ...
Romantic deception from the French farceur, Francis Veber: a paparazzi photo captures a lowly parking valet in the same frame with a philandering industrialist and his supermodel girlfriend, and the industrialist then pays the valet to pretend that the supermodel is his own girlfriend. The mechanical plot is worth putting ...