It was the greatest love story never told. For decades, Nina (Barbara Sukowa) and Mado (Martine Chevallier) have lived a romance in the shadows, on the same floor, in opposite apartments. Nobody knew. Not the neighbors, not Mado’s grown children. But sudden illness has a way of shattering many pensioners’ …
A pair of devoted cousins (Melissa Barrera and Anahí Dávila), caught up in the excitement (and liquor) associated with a wedding, decide to play a joke on their respective husbands (Mariano Palacios and Daniel Adissi) by swapping rings and driving home in separate cars. How far are they willing to …
In their heyday, Eugene Levy and the rest of the satirically contemptuous gang at SCTV would have had a field day gutting a formulaic mixed-message trafficker like Tyler Perry. Now? I know that standout comedic supporting players gotta eat, but does Perry own compromising Polaroids of Levy with barnyard animals? …
A group of overlit, malformed, and oppressively upbeat FAO Schwarz factory rejects leave Uglytown for the Big World, an alternate universe populated by winsome, acromegalic Tootsie Pops who cringe at the very sight of them. In a word, fugly. Combine the suppleness of character detail often associated with a Cricket …
Not long before the letters BLM became indelibly inked on our collective consciousness, the death of two African American youth, killed by the Chicago Police, forever impacted the lives of another pair of millennials: social worker Janaé Bonsu and fellow revolutionary (and celebrated “Raptivist”) Bella Bahhs. A forward-looking dissenter, Janaé …
On the strength of director Tom Gormicon’s previous feature (That Awkward Moment) and the gravitational pull of its star, the high hopes that accompanied me into the theatre weren’t dashed. If Nic Cage had a dollar for every time a ‘k’ was tacked on the end of his first name, …
Angelina Jolie strikes a pose behind the camera for a vanity production that delights in torturing audiences as much as it does the film’s characters. On land, sea, and air, the charmed celeb stops at nothing when it comes to cataloging human suffering in this fact-based, CGI-encumbered account of Italian-American …
Leave Jurassic World to the kiddies and spend a few hours in the dark with these irresistible dinosaurs. A schnook promoter (Lil Rel Howery) who barely knows which end of a basketball to hold, convinces a group of over-the-hill streetballers — all played by court legends buried beneath layers of …
Howard Ratner’s (Adam Sandler) day is consumed with robbing Peter to pawn to Paul. His life is a constant juggling act, his desperate ploy a complex series of bets involving a multitude of moving parts. If he can distract his clients long enough to keep afloat everything, the rewards could …
It’s Paranormal Activity Teheran style in this realistically told little haunted house story set against the backdrop of true-life horror. An Iranian mother is bounced from medical school after being found guilty of being politically active in her youth. With her husband away on business and her young daughter battling …
Will Eubank trades in the cramped, outmoded U.S. Air Force base that played home to extraterrestrial biological entities in his previous film, The Signal, for an underwater research lab imagineered in a style that evokes a crumbling ‘80s health club. There’s nothing alien about this plot: a subterranean tremor does …
“If you leave me, I will have to kill you,” Undine (Paula Beer) threatens her unfaithful beau Johannes (Jacob Matschenz) over coffee. As with many of the film’s principal locations, the outdoor cafe, situated across the street from the museum where Undine freelances as a historian and tour guide for …
A Chicago inner city high teacher (Cobie Smulders), faced with her school closing, and her star student (Gail Bean) form a bond when both their home pregnancy sticks tests light pink. Cut out “un.” Everything you expect to happen does. With a 90-minute running time, Unexpected would fit comfortably, with …
If you liked The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Quartet, why not seek professional help? Seriously, if those films define your idea of time well spent at the movies, purchase tickets in advance for this. An irascible retiree (Terence Stamp) refuses to join his dying wife (Vanessa Redgrave) and her …