An Italian street gang in the Bronx ("Oh-h-h, I'm the type-a guy who-a likes to roam aroun'...") is treated with a degree of excess characteristic of the Italian cinema, the Fellini division — over-inflated caricature, dreamlike geography, dizzy camerawork. If you doubt the seriousness of writer-directer Philip Kaufman's elegy to …
World wide production commences on giant thrusters to move Earth out of the path of the dying sun and sail it to a new star system. This Chinese sci-fi epic is directed by Frant Gwo.
Humans build huge engines on the surface of the Earth in order to find a new home. Directed by Frant Gwo and starring Andy Lau, Jing Wu, and Zina Blahusova.
Raúl Ruiz veteran director of over 100 features and shorts returns with a comedy structured as a Chilean ensemble of soap operas in which reality does not exist.
Shaken from their Manhattan pinnacle by the big recession, Jennifer Anniston and Paul Rudd find new life and free love at a rural commune. David Wain directed; with Justin Theroux, Alan Alda, Lauren Ambrose, Malin Akerman.
Nerd’s daydream of getting out from under one’s pencil-pushing job, one’s bossy boss, and one’s cheating girlfriend, finding out it’s in one’s genes to be an elite assassin, learning the tricks of the trade in nothing flat, e.g., guiding bullets telekinetically, intercepting enemy bullets in midair, and so on. (A …
Funny idea, sort of, to identify the modern-day bounty hunter here as the great-grandson of the Wild West bounty hunter on the old TV series of the same name. And that could have been, as intended, the end of it — a frivolous funny idea along with such other ones …
Writer-director Tobias Lindholm’s latest is a microcosmic and finely wrought war story in which everyone has their reasons. Danish company commander Claus M. Pederson (Pilou Asbæk, looking like a cross between Michael Shannon and Ewan McGregor and nailing the role’s measured intensity) starts leading his unit’s patrols through Helmand province …
Homilizing coming-of-age tale revolving around a Vietnam vet in backwoods Mississippi, afflicted with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, prevented from holding a job, unafflicted with bitterness, unprevented from emanating sweetness and light. (Sort of a cross between Abe Lincoln and Jesus Christ, minus a beard.) His son, in a running feud with …
Wanting to be taken more seriously as an actor and director, Emilio Estevez navigates a well-marked short cut: to Vietnam, and to the tempestuous readjustment of a war vet to civilian life. The dynamic of the central family of four is credible, especially in the ways in which hurt can …
Well now, looky here — a fantasy story, heavy on the CGI and based on an existing (video game) property — that somehow doesn’t feel like brand management, fan service, or even boilerplate hackwork. Instead, you’ve got a complicated, unexpected hero in the orc chieftan Durotan, who starts having second …
Patongo Primary School, from the rebel-infested war zone in northern Uganda, qualifies for the National Music Competition for the first time ever. Glossily photographed documentary (with an overreliance on warping wide-angle lenses), but very skimpy in its coverage of the actual competition. And after an hour’s worth of horrific war …
The 20th Century Fox fanfare (with CinemaScope addendum) is performed on jungle drums and didgeridoo. Sometimes, a film earns points even before the opening credits hit the screen; other times, a variation on a studio logo is as avant garde as it gets. War's two predecessors handily proved the gimmick …