You can take the wannabe gangsta out of the city, but taking the gangsta out of his sweet rebel soul is another thing entirely. Ricky (Julian Dennison) is a mound of urban teenage misery whose last stop before juvie is a tumbledown farm at the edge of the New Zealand …
Wraparound treatment of the characters from Snow White and the Huntsman (some of the story occurs before the original, some after) that isn’t exactly good, but is definitely better than might be expected. The story borrows from Frozen — semi-close sisters, one of whom has a chilly heart and abilities …
Vlad Yudin's documentary takes a look at Mixed Martial Arts and the toll it takes on those who practice it.
Feng Xiaogang directs this story of a woman's tireless quest to bring the State to bear on her marital status. In Mandarin.
Director Raoul Peck takes African-American author James Baldwin’s notes for Remember This House — his unfinished “story of America” as told through the lives of slain activists Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evars — and fashions them into a freeform meditation on race and America, read masterfully …
Yibai Zhang directs this tale of two disc jockeys. In Cantonese.
With each passing entry in the Ice Age franchise (this is number five), the gap between the anarchic joy of the brief bits featuring Scrat the Squirrel and the plodding, on-the-trunk bulk of the film starring Manny the Mammoth & Family & Friends grows wider. (The image of a world-splitting …
I haven’t seen enough of British director Ken Loach’s movies, but the few that have come my way (My Name is Joe, Sweet Sixteen) struck me as good examples of finely crafted social realism. Alas, this time around, Loach and his habitual screenwriter Paul Laverty are working in moral black …
Prakash Raj directs this story of a businessman forced to spend the night with a prostitute. No, not like that, you perv. In Kannada and Telugu.
Philippine filmmaker Paolo Dy writes and directs this biopic of the saint who founded the Jesuits.
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Michael Tuviera directs this Filipino romance. In Filipino.
Brian Baugh directs this feature based on the first victim of the Columbine shootings, who reportedly affirmed her faith immediately before being killed.
A trio of Palestinian women — straight-laced and veiled college student Nour (Shaden Kanboura), dauntless chain-smoker Laila (Mouna Hawa), and lesbian DJ Salma (Sana Jammelieh) — share an apartment in Tel Aviv. The two who are party girls find their bookish roommate to be hopelessly square, and she returns the …