A minor embarrassment from a minor master: Polanski directing his plump, sleepy-eyed wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, as a megaton Sex Bomb. The setting is shipboard, but any comparison to the same director's Knife in the Water goes out the porthole with the endless narrated flashbacks to a sadomasochistic imbroglio in Paris. …
Alejandro González Iñárritu attends his film with such care and detail that, despite the squalor of the environment, we are left with an undeniable aesthetic. Javier Bardem, as the protagonist, accomplishes much with little, revealing a detached worry and guilt. While Iñárritu may amble too far with his plot, he …
Profile of singer Bjork.
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the ancient gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam (Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world. Dwayne Johnson stars alongside Aldis Hodge as Hawkman, Noah Centineo as …
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the ancient gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam (Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world. Dwayne Johnson stars alongside Aldis Hodge as Hawkman, Noah Centineo as …
A black cop (Naomie Harris) weighs her options after witnessing fellow officers commit a murder. Deon Taylor (Traffik, The Intruder) directs,
And the gray area of white bleeding into black, the particular area of interest of the filmmaker-within-the-film (Brooke Shields), who follows around, with a camcorder the size of a paperback, a group of hip-hop hangers-on from Manhattan's Upper East Side: "I have a vision," she proclaims. "I want it to …
Intelligence agents George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn are at a crossroad. When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country. From Director Steven Soderbergh, starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender.
Intelligence agents George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn are at a crossroad. When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country. From Director Steven Soderbergh, starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender.
The embarrassments of having an ADD autistic brother when you’re trying to fit in at a new school: him running down the street in his undies and into a stranger’s house to use the toilet, him smearing poo on the rug, him popping your new girlfriend’s tampon into his mouth, …
No one can tolerate Allison’s (Aubrey Plaza) on-set behavior, so the actress sets her sights on another form of torture: directing. Creative juices all but parched, Allison opts to spend a little emotional tuneup time at a woodsy bed and breakfast owned and operated by an unhappily married couple: musician …
Screenwriter and first-time director Caroline Thompson's repayment of debt to one of her girlhood favorites, the Victorian perennial by Anna Sewell. It proceeds at a metronomic clip-clop pace, and there's very little narrative development: what little there is comes literally straight from the horse's mouth. ("It was cold and bright …
The company behind the first smartphone, the BlackBerry, meets a catastrophic demise. Directed by Matt Johnson, starring Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, and Matt Johnson.
Paul Verhoeven goes back to his native Holland, back, that is, from his Robocop and his Basic Instinct and his Showgirls and his Starship Troopers, back to the subject of Soldier of Orange, the Second World War, the Nazi occupation, the Dutch resistance. A beautiful Jewish chanteuse, dislodged from her …