Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.
A cantankerous senior, recently bounced from his retirement home, moves into a commune where he soon discovers the truth about his younger son and his way of living in this Mexican comedy directed by Raúl Martínez.
The Taviani brothers' -- Paolo and Vittorio's -- Cannes festival award-winner, a parable of oppression adapted from Gavino Ledda's autobiography about his ascendancy from Sardinian shepherd to linguist. The hero's moments of enlightment -- his discovery of music, his instruction in Latin -- are truly inspiring, but the moviemakers dwell …
Monotoned lip service to the joys of reading (more familiarity is shown with the screen treatments of Dr. Jekyll, Moby Dick, Treasure Island, than with the original books), in the form of a Neverending Story-type fantasy. Part live action, part animation, but not really much of either: less than an …
Made with Times support but more than a rah-rah, Andrew Rossi’s documentary shows the travails and enduring, workaholic pride of a great newspaper during tough times. Tall, caustic, croaky-voiced reporter David Carr is charismatic, but the hero of the film is print journalism, practiced with fierce application, although mistakes and …
Slow-cooking revenge tale from France, and from hitherto unknown director Denis Dercourt. The heroine, as a little girl and aspiring pianist, gets thrown off in her scholarship audition when one of the judges, a female pianist of some renown, takes time out in mid-performance to sign an autograph. Right then …
Husband and wife directing team Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan make their feature debut with this fly-on-the-wall, narration-free video diary that ostensibly documents the lives of four students — none of whom are interviewed — from the 2017 graduating class of Pahokee High School. (I say “ostensibly” because the surplus …
Here is the privilege of artistic reputation: even your fallow periods may serve as fertile ground. When we meet filmmaker Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas, low-key and soulful as the stand-in for writer-director Pedro Almodóvar), he is floating underwater, eyes closed, motionless, not even a bubble escaping his nostril. An artist, …
Oy, Bay! Michael Bay, the Butcher of Burbank, returns, this time with one pound of script in a 20 lb. casing and a refrigerated display case fit to bust with shoulder cut of Mark Wahlberg, prime rib of Anthony Mackie, and filet of Rock. In order to help underwrite their …