Franco Zeffirelli's remake and update of King Vidor's 1931 tearjerker of the same name, with Jon Voight and Ricky Schroder taking the places of Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper, and mopping up, so to speak, on their elders. The characterization of the little boy is rather like a repressive, authoritarian …
A young man, mentally and physically tortured by his foster parents, searches for his biological parents. This fact-based family film is directed by Mark Vadik.
Goodly awful. A reincarnation fantasy about a recycled soul, processed too quickly and not properly inoculated, who begins to remember his past life once he runs into his former wife -- not before he has already met, by a stupefying coincidence, her best friend and her now nubile daughter (who …
A man faces one adversary after another with an undying spirit and unwavering zeal. Directed by Kabir Khan, starring Kartik Aaryan.
A few years after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the Tubo army attacked the southwest. Gao Shi, who was trapped in the isolated city, recalled his life with Li Bai to the eunuch of the supervising army.
Clint Eastwood was due for a dud, and this stacks up as his flattest film, his stumpiest film, since Blood Work, bookending his hot streak of Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, and the Second World War diptych, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. Time once again to …
Middle-aged college professor cheats on wife with nubile young co-ed, and wife follows suit with virile young handyman, thus setting the stage for a ménage-à-quatre in a cozy Vermont cabin. Enter the married couple's daughter; enter the co-ed's father; enter the daughter's fiancé -- all of whom, showing as much …
It opens with a cute infant projectile-defecating into the mouth of his dad (Jason Batemen) and never gets better. Solid bourgeois lawyer Bateman and his crass bachelor chum (Ryan Reynolds) switch bodies, thanks to magic (a blackout!) while urinating into a public fountain. That allows the horndog to vulgarize Bateman's …
Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck get into a fender-bender on the FDR on their separate ways to the courthouse, the one to divorce court, the other to probate court. The first, an operatically repentant alcoholic, unable to drive away from the scene of the accident, loses custody of his …
Half mystery, half documentary, adding up to half a movie. We are free, of course, to see in the title an allusion to that famous fictional representative of the Chinese people, Charlie Chan, and to interpret the title as a somewhat less provocative version of "God Is Dead." We are, …