Zoey Deutch stars as an entitled brat (and founding member of her school’s elite “mean girls” clique) who is inexplicably compelled to wrap up her final moments on Earth reliving the last day of her life before getting it right. Other than an unexpected air of adroitness that occasionally kicks …
Just when you thought Hollywood had exhausted every drop of originality, here comes a new film on the subject of amnesia. A gruesome “accident” robs Nicole Kidman of her ability to store information for more than a day at a time. Not knowing whom to trust, the absent-minded cipher must …
Late in the proceedings of this, the third installment of Richard Linklater's relationship gabfest, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) gets a mid-argument chance to make a list of his beloved Celine’s (July Delpy) flaws. “Well, for starters, you’re fucking crazy,” he begins — and gets no further. But sometimes, a one-item list …
Julian Schnabel's second film is, like his Basquiat, a conventional, celebratory biopic on an unconventional, subcultural hero: this time the homosexual Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas. We take up his story in his female-dominated childhood (the boy lays his head against a tree trunk, stroking it, gazing at a group of …
The late 1960s. Nana cannot escape her past. Poverty-stricken, having lost her family to the war in West Java, she marries again and begins a new life. But the past lives on in her dreams. Her new husband is wealthy, but her place in the home is menial, and he …
Richard Linklater, of Slacker and Dazed and Confused, has unmistakably entered the mainstream: a "date movie" (according to Rolling Stone magazine) about a young Frenchwoman and American man who meet on a train, get off in Vienna, and pass one sleepless night together before the man catches a plane back …
Richard Linklater's sequel to Before Sunrise, after a nine-year hiatus: not nearly as long as the twenty years between Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman and its sequel, just barely longer than the delay between Jacques Demy's Lola and his Model Shop. It seems appropriate to reference French forerunners …
Interesting attempt by the eighty-three-year-old Sidney Lumet to keep up with the Tarantinos, piloting a caper film of back-and-forth time jumps and alternating points of view. The caper itself, a jewelry store stickup, is strictly small-time. "We don't want Tiffany's," the mastermind, a drug-dependent real estate accountant (Philip Seymour Hoffman), …
Macedonian-born filmmaker Milcho Manchevski examines the civil war in his homeland in three torpid episodes, separate but slightly overlapping. (Someone, a different someone each time, throws up in each episode.) Feeling is buried undetectably under slick and flashy technique. With Rade Serbedzija, Katrin Cartlidge, Gregoire Colin, Labina Mitevska.
Interracial, extramarital love in unsettled India of 1937. Things take a tragic turn fairly early, and then grind on taking melodramatic ones. Capably directed (as well as photographed) by Santosh Sivan, but heavy-handedly. With Linus Roache, Nandita Das, Rahul Bose, and Jennifer Ehle.
Chris Evans and Alice Eve meet up in Grand Central and spend a magical night in New York City. Directed by Captain America, er, Chris Evans.
The awkward goodnight kiss Rachel (writer-director Hannah Pearl Utt) shares in front of the rickety playhouse she calls home trumpets an indie romance. Sit tight. Love will have to wait. Rachel still lives at home and is embarrassed to invite her date inside for a nightcap. One branch below on …
A divorced record exec (Mark Ruffalo), inundated with booze and bombarded by mediocrity, stumbles upon an open mic night in time to catch a fetching singer-songwriter (Keira Knightley) with a sensational “little voice” who he instantly signs. The gimmick: they’ll record an album on the fly at various locations across …