A documentary about the hippie stoner duo, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong directed by David Bushell.
Very light French foodie comedy, seasoned with a touch of romance, that never quite boils over into farce. The ingredients are utterly traditional — gifted nobody (a sweetly sincere Michael Youn) who needs a break, aging master (a comfortable Jean Reno) worried about his career in a world of changing …
This documentary escapee from the Food Network follows 15-year-old Flynn McGarry, dubbed “the Justin Bieber of food,” as he transitions from kid cuisinier to celebrity chef. Did I say documentary? Half the picture consists of home movies shot by his suffocatingly predatorial mother, Meg. Day and night she films, the …
Pierre Richard, older, slower, subtler than in The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (et al.), as a French gastronome in pre-Communist (but not for long) Georgia, an ambassador of that certain joie de vivre, that haute cuisine, that toujours l'amour, that raison d'être, that je ne sais quoi, …
Her character in Hustlers was as harebrained and underdeveloped as the action scenes that stretched out Charlie’s Angels were soul-crushing. Nevertheless something about Lili Reinhardt’s poise and screen presence suggested a movie star in the offing. With Grace, the cane-reliant newcomer-cum-class-poet-laureate who drags more in tow than a game leg, …
First half of Steven Soderbergh’s four-and-a-half-hour worship service in honor of Che Guevara, conducted in Spanish with English subtitles, really two distinct movies. This first, in wide screen and in roomy frames, operates a time shuttle between vivid color re-enactments of the overthrow of Batista in the late Fifties and …
The free-standing second half of Steven Soderbergh’s worship service, in narrower screen than the first half, and in less vivid color and no black-and-white, unfolds a contrastingly chronological account of Guevara’s final year, 1966-67, his ill-fated attempt to do in Bolivia what he had done in Cuba. As in the …
A compaction of two Colette novels, written by Christopher Hampton and directed by Stephen Frears, about the grand amour between a brink-of-retirement Parisian courtesan and the androgynous bastard son of an already retired courtesan, the older woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) hitching her wagon to the younger man (Rupert Friend), who after …
Little more than an accompaniment to an eclectic soundtrack of pop songs (Hall and Oates, Modern English, America, 10cc, Soft Cell, the Human League, the Turtles, and of course the title tune by the Association), though the songs are better integrated than in most such cases. Which is to say …
It must have made a great pitch: send the standard bunch of young, attractive Americans on an extreme tourism adventure to Pripyat, the town next door to Chernobyl, site of the worst nuclear accident in history. Tweak the real-life mutant horrors brought on by the fallout, and let the Russian …
Modest, quiet, contemplative, bittersweet tale of the loss of a life partner and the living-on of the departed one (however briefly) in the surviving one. The partners are a cozy old Bavarian couple, a stick-in-the-mud husband chained to routine and resistant to change, and his self-repressed Japanophile wife whose abandoned …
His trademark fast-shuffle editing does wonders to disguise the fact that one-third of this Russ Meyer film was accidentally destroyed in the laboratory. A slight setback, that. To plug up the gaps, Meyer belatedly added a voluptuous mute pixie named Haji, who flits mischievously through the movie and establishes a …
Every little breeze seems to whisper unease in this one-location, one-joke comedy. We never know exactly why our six anal-retentive alpha males cruise the Aegean Sea on a luxury yacht, but one thing’s for certain: every minute of their time together will be spent competing for your attention. From housecleaning …