Sympathy for the terrorist. Not, heaven forbid, the Islamic terrorist, but the South African terrorist circa 1980, the hard-working family man who, falsely accused of terrorism, turns to terrorism for real. Parallels to other sorts of terrorists can be drawn all the same, and that would be the only avenue …
Romantic seriocomedy to do with a scheduled wedding turned funeral and the stranded bride's posthumous discovery that her intended groom had a secret big bank account and a secret small child. (They had seemed such a perfect couple: she's called Gray, he was called Grady.) If writer and director Susannah …
In times past, a typical sports figure could expect to live out his remaining years as a casino greeter or car salesman. But sometimes, Uncle Sam has other plans: the O.S.S. assigned Boston Red Sox catcher Moe Berg (Paul Rudd) the task of assassinating Werner Heisenberg (Mark Strong), the man …
A Pakistani girl hides out in West Yorkshire with her boyfriend, who is not Pakistani. Her brother and some of his associates arrive in town to seek her out, much to her alarm. Directed and co-written by Daniel Wolfe.
Lightweight Spielberg (as compared, say, with the immediately preceding Minority Report, never mind Schindler's List or Amistad), an admiring, even envying portrait of a real-life teenage imposter and check forger in the late 1960s, Frank Abagnale, Jr. His excuse: his father's financial woes, his move to a new school, his …
Miss this movie. Teen rock climber, go-kart mechanic, and photographer turn their talents to bank robbery -- flattery will get them everywhere -- in a good cause, of course: a $250,000 surgery in Denmark. (Origin of the movie of which this is a remake.) One could wish the focus were …
A documentary portrait of men whose lives have been forever changed by their cats. These nine “cat dads” come from all over the U.S. and from walks of life – a firefighter, a truck driver, a Hollywood stuntman, an ad executive turned cat rescuer, a police officer, a software engineer, …
An adolescent rube, transplanted with her parents to teeming Rome, faces an array of life-changing choices: communism, materialism, classical music, boys. The filmmaking style is more hectic than it needed to be to convey the confusion. Roberto Benigni and Michele Placido pop up in as-themselves cameos, and Sergio Castellitto is …
Title tells all.
An is-it-or-isn’t-it documentary on the perils and pitfalls of Facebook friendships, or anyhow one particular one between a New York photographer (Nev Schulman) and a supposed eight-year-old Michigan girl who makes paintings of his photographs. That doesn’t sound like much of a subject for a documentary, and you’re asked to …
A commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals get set adrift in space in 1972 in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand.