Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure. Starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen.
A down-on-his-luck man struggles to find a better life for his family while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, ultimately discovering that the redemptive power of belief may …
Post-apocalyptic chic. In metallic monochrome, in sterilizing shafts of light, in portentous slo-mo, Denzel Washington safeguards the only extant copy of the King James Bible, with his archer's bow, shotgun, pistol, and terrible swift sword: the new Messiah. One of many head-scratchers is why on earth the tin-pot town boss …
A Rube Goldberg machine delights because it employs a ridiculously complex mechanism to achieve a thoroughly simple — and ultimately insignificant — result. The insignificance is what makes the complexity funny. So it’s disconcerting, which is a nice way of saying mortifying, when the titular boy genius in Colin Treverrow’s …
The Dia de Los Muertos is a natural subject for a creepy-lite kiddie flick (alas, Tim Burton...). Sure, there are skulls, but they're made of sugar. Yes, there are graves, but they're covered with marigolds. Even the skeletons are dressed to blend in with the (still-fleshy) crowd. And it's all …
Two more cents' worth of testimony, and not another penny, on coming-of-age in the 1950s, taken from a novel by William Kotzwinkle. Its trustworthiness is pretty well indicated by the recurrent use of a musical theme from Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns of a decade later. With Chris Young, Keith Coogan, …
This "fictionalized re-enactment" of events following the release of The Blair Witch Project revisits the Maryland wilderness with a fly-by-night tour guide and his party of sightseers: a psychic Goth, a militant Wiccan, and a married pair of nonfiction authors. (Bad actors, every one.) Aside from the continual references to …
Hang a CLOSED sign in the window: it’s another film with a strong female character that’s cushioned in the safety and comfort of the recent past. Were writer/director Isabel Coixet up for a challenge, she would have fashioned a film about a feminist trying to keep a brick and mortar …
High school fantasy from director Olivia Wilde that takes care to hide its soft heart beneath a tough hide of sexy talk, modern mores, and somewhat subverted expectations. Taking the last part first: our heroines here are a couple of good girls (Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein) who spent high …
A pair of eggheads determined to compensate for their academic excellence, pack four years worth of partying into one night. Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein star in Olivia Wilde's directorial debut.
Filmed version of the popular Young Adult novel about a pretty blonde orphan girl (a cherubic Sophie Nelisse) who gets taken in by poor, decent German folk just as World War II gets underway. Papa (a hunched Geoffrey Rush) hides a Jew in the basement because the Jew's father once …
A true curiosity, up the alley of the professional psychologist more than of the casual moviegoer: a neo-Depression escapist romantic comedy about an affluent black Lothario who loves 'em and leaves 'em dangling, and who has the tables turned on him ("Call me?") and discovers the meaning of true love. …
I'm guessing this is a documentary about the late teenage years of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Irish brothers Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) & Murphy McManus (Norman Reedus) live and work in Boston. Feeling that God's will to rid Earth from all human Evil was given to them as a mission, they set out to do their divine deed. A public outcry is never heard, and even …
When Vick pursues a luxurious life in the big city, the time-space continuum splits. He must journey to fix his mistakes and save his friends: the Boonie Bears.