Apart from Frank Tashlin’s The First Time (it’s narrated by a fetus), talking baby movies are not my bag. Adding to the aggravation, this joins Spirit Untamed as the second film from Dreamworks Animation in as many months to base a sequel on a small screen counterfeit and not the …
Apart from Frank Tashlin’s The First Time (it’s narrated by a fetus), talking baby movies are not my bag. Adding to the aggravation, this joins Spirit Untamed as the second film from Dreamworks Animation in as many months to base a sequel on a small screen counterfeit and not the …
Matt Damon narrates a documentary history of the Boston Marathon.
A tug-of-war over the body and soul of a charismatic women's emancipationist, ca. 1875, between a repressed lesbian and a Southern gentleman of the old school ("He's an enemy of our movement and our sex. You must fear him"). But the emancipationist has an interest in the gentleman too, as …
A fledgeless lark involving three callow lunkheads embarking together on lives of crime. The debuting director is Wes Anderson, who affects jazzy, jaunty, New Wavy mannerisms which of course by this time are pretty Old Wavy, or Shore Drifty. And he favors squared-up and steam-pressed compositions for a homely deadpan …
Unpalatable promo for California wines, more broadly a paean to good old American know-how and a chance, at the same time, to stick it to the French, the British, the Old World. A competitive wine tasting in the Bicentennial year of 1976, boiled down as “a bunch of hicks taking …
The four rascals decide to take matters into their own hands and plot their own plan to solve a love triangle.
Jean Renoir's hoorah for the free human spirit: a stagy and sentimental story about a no-good bum and would-be suicide who is fished out of the river and then stubbornly resists all of his bourgeois benefactor's attempts to lead him along the road to rehabilitation. Michel Simon, his leonine head …
Well-spent efforts, early, toward documenting the East Los Angeles barrio, the houses, the streets, the youth-gang style of dress, the low-rider car culture, etc., all very slickly photographed (nothing less would do justice to the wax jobs on the cars). This documentary detail is sufficiently exciting to make one deeply …
Weepie about a sheet of fabric softener in a tumble-dryer of emotion. The sheet (Outdoor Fresh Scent) is Gwyneth Paltrow, a willowy widow whose husband went down on Infinity Flight 82 out of O'Hare. Then, a year later, along comes a Tall Dark Handsome Stranger (Ben Affleck, Mr. Nonchalance) who, …
Youssef Delara directs this relationship comedy about a relationship between two relationship experts.