Michel Franco and Victoria Franco present the story of a desperate mother seeking to repair her son's eyes. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Sudha Kangara Prasad writes and directs this tale of an aging, disgraced boxer looking for redemption through his training of a young protege. In Hindi and Tamil with English subtitles.
Bad man makes good music. Or, perhaps more strangely, sad man makes happy music. (Spoiler alert: we don’t hear the plaintive croon of “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” until the closing credits. Instead, we see and hear a rousing rendition of “Hey Good Lookin’.”) Screenwriter and director Marc Abraham’s …
Writer-director Matt Cooper sets Lysistrata in a small Texas town where the women decide to withhold sex until the men get rid of their guns.
Were it not for the giant blood stain on the lower-half of her fabled pink dress – a moment director Pablo Larraín takes his sweet time revealing in a startling pullback – and constant juxtaposition next to her husband’s casket, Jackie Kennedy could have just as easily been mistaken for …
More like Jack Creaker, amirite? Yeah, it’s a lousy joke, but then, it’s a lousy movie, and lousy or not, it’s a propos: dated, silly, and more than a little bit cheap. Tom Cruise returns to his embodiment of a mid-century American masculine fantasy: an ex-military superman who’s gotta ramble, …
Vineeth Sreenivasan writes and directs this story of a successful businessman who winds up cheated and in debt, and must find a way back to prosperity and peace. In Malayalam.
Koratala Siva directs this bilingual actioner. In Telugu and Malayalam.
Natalie Portman stars in Gavin O’Connor’s western about a woman who must seek former lover Joel Edgerton’s help in holding off a gang of baddies led by Ewan McGregor.
A documentary for those who find favor in Glee, Carol Burnett Show skits, and the tuneless components of ’30s musicals that showcase Mickey and Judy putting on a show in their own backyard. I don’t generally, but the titular nonagenarian and her annual quest to keep alive her own particular …
What happens when “complicated” gives way to “convoluted.” It’s 10 years since super-amnesiac CIA super-agent Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) learned the awful truth that he volunteered to become a mindless government assassin, and now he is living off the grid, tortured by guilt and punching people for money. Only maybe …
Lydia Tenaglia’s alternately dreamy and gossipy documentary about celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower is heavy on the “celebrity” and frustratingly short on the “chef.” Yes, it’s probably worth knowing that his hard-partying, world-traveling, deeply neglectful parents left him alone for extended periods, such that he spent a lot of time in …
On the surface, what appears to be a Borat/Inspector Clouseau hybrid is really little more than the premise of a typical Jerry Lewis film: assign a patsy a set of impossible tasks only to have him ace every challenge. Maz Jobrani stars as the titular errand boy, an Iranian clod …
Two laid off friends decide to start a business ferrying medical marijuana patients to fill their prescriptions. They turn to a local drug dealer for startup cash. Hijinks ensue.