The stars align in the Western sky. Hell or High Water is the sort of film that tempts the critic — well, this one, anyway — to start writing the sort of copy that might end up as a promo-poster pullquote. “Timeless and yet supremely timely,” “A movie with tremendous …
NASA’s gone funky when a trio of African-American women (Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe), all experts in the field of analytic geometry, prove they have the right stuff needed to crack the elite white boy’s space program. An important historical achievement — and apparently, the space center’s …
The film begins as its story ends — with the handsome, introspective lead character (Tom Hiddleston) picking through the rubble of a broken building, finding a dog, bringing it back to his ruined apartment, then slaughtering it and roasting its hind leg on a spit while cheerful classical music streams …
A dancer who didn't fit in. A musician who didn't belong. Good thing they're both beautiful. Directed and co-written by Michael Damien.
Dinesh D'Souza brings his documentary-making prowess to bear on Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — and the Democratic party in general.
A new motion-picture genre: the theatrical worship experience.
John Krasinski directs and stars in a family dramedy involving, wait for it, an uncertain young man on the cusp of fatherhood who returns to his hometown when his mother falls ill. With Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anna Kendrick, Charlie Day, Sharlto Copley, Richard Jenkins, and Margo Martindale as Mom.
Following his embodiment of American foreign policy in Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks looks to embody American economic policy as Alan Clay, a man who once voted to move Schwinn’s bicycle production to China, and who now finds himself trying to hawk IT for an unbuilt city of the future in …
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to the festival brochure, "Enrique Metinides is a photographer whose images have captured the aftermath of some of Mexico’s most devastating accidents. Through Metinides’s candid photos and the work of the contemporary tabloid photographers, Mexico City becomes …
Autobiographical documentary from Damani Baker.
“Why are we embarrassed to admit that we are single,” asks narrator-star Dakota Johnson at the outset of this muddled valentine to self-discovery, when singledom is “when our real life is happening, maybe?” So committed is the film to musing on this point that it eventually hollows out nearly every …
Dan Villegas cowrites and directs this movie about young lovers struggling to reconcile their professional and romantic lives. In Filipino and Tagalog.
A single humpback whale song may last for 20 minutes, or half as long as this film.
Past acquaintances want no part of Ashley (Andre Royo), yet the good natured career-schemer insists on living life as the cheeriest ex-con ever discharged from a three-year “vacation” in the pen. Ashley finds fresh blood in the form of bottom-feeder “Germ” (George Sample III), a copacetic cohort who makes cash …