Hindi-language sports action film written and directed by Aditya Datt, starring Vidyut Jammwal, Nora Fatehi, Arjun Rampal, and Amy Jackson.
Jason Statham, his stolen heart, his beat-the-clock recovery effort, chronicled with a spastic camera, warping lenses, sophomoric smut, stupefying action. With Amy Smart, Bai Ling, Clifton Collins, Jr., and Dwight Yoakam; directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
Multicharacter tapestry of the seething melting pot of L.A., an object lesson on racial and ethnic stereotypes, attitudes, biases, tensions. The didactic impulse overrules good sense: a bigoted cop, for just one example, gives a hard time to a respectable black couple at the side of the road, and then …
Cultish, or would-be cultish, adaptation of a novel by the erstwhile science-fiction writer J.G. Ballard -- albeit a novel infinitely less science-fictional, though no less inert, than The Drowned World or The Drought. It plays out on screen as little more than a slice of soft-core (or semisoft-core) porn, right …
Breck Eisner’s remake of a lesser-known George Romero horror show from 1973, a therefore more defensible remake than those of the Dead series, for which we can hope that Romero (credited as executive producer) received decent compensation. The no-nonsense line of action to do with a contagion of homicidal lunacy …
Matthew Miele's documentary about the famed New York jewelery store.
Teen romance between an underprivileged, highly motivated Chicano (a football star but also a studious student who can explain the difference between "assert" and "exert" in a class discussion) and a spoiled white rich bitch who shows a lot of midriff and no consideration. Potentially, that's more of a subject …
Jeff Bridges is pretty much the whole show, and a generous show it is. His Bad Blake, given name to be held back for the gravestone, is an over-the-hill and down-on-his-luck C&W singer still living the life of a C&W song, four marriages behind him, long lonely drives and cheap …
Slender, small-breasted women, mostly naked and elegantly shot, are seen performing at the famous Crazy Horse club in Paris, although they are more Degas-truthful offstage than in their chic, vampy routines. Tourists, couples, and solo voyeurs form the audience. Found touches of humor inflect the deadpan lucidity of veteran director …
Truth in advertising (Jaguar: "For men who'd like hand jobs from beautiful women they hardly know"). What a concept! And who better to carry it out than a copywriting team of incarcerated lunatics? What a -- to be more exact -- stale concept! What a rancid one! With Dudley Moore, …
Lazy niche suasions call, audiences answer back, and damn if it isn’t the surprise hit of the summer. Director Jon M. Chu (Step Up 3D, Justin Bieber's Believe), eager to exploit the novelty of an Asian-dominant cast, plays it safe with this regulation Hollywood romcom that if nothing else, will …
What fun: a romantic comedy based on genuine human folly instead of some high-concept absurdity. Julianne Moore is a middle-aged woman adrift, so much so that she slips out of her marriage (to Steve Carell) and into another man's bed. Pathos ensues, with many of the laughs arising from moments …