Fractured fairy tale (to borrow a phrase from Rocky and His Friends): Hansel and Gretel recast as a French Bonnie and Clyde (he's impotent) who lose their way in the woods after burying a body, and fall into the clutches of a hirsute homosexual hermit. (Because they're French, the young …
It begins with an armed robbery at a jewelry store, a shooting, and a suicide — though the single-take camera seems more concerned with the symmetry of the composition and the rectangle of light at the center of the shot than it is with the people inside the store or …
Sam Fuller, whose eyes are always bigger than his stomach, takes on a murder investigation and East-West race relations at the same time. The after-dark location shooting and the presence of Glenn Corbett in the lead role remind us rather rudely of the budget limitations. With Victoria Shaw, James Shigeta.
Guillermo Del Toro(Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, and Charlie Hunnam.
Continuing to circulate among the heroes of time-honored action genres — aviators (Top Gun), car racers (Days of Thunder), private detectives (The Last Boy Scout) — director Tony Scott here moves on to submariners, complete with map-and-pointer briefings, locker-room-style inspirational speeches ("Go, 'Bama!"), sonor-screen blips of incoming torpedoes, and so …
The convolution commences at the Canadian border, with a chase resulting in the capture of a young man carrying a backpack filled with pills. This sets in motion the bringing together of three dissimilar characters through their various connections to the opioid crisis. A drug-trafficking DEA agent (Armie Hammer) works …
Senior Negotiator Cheuk Man Wai accidentally becomes the number one suspect in a murder case. He is forced to occupy the police station and take the police hostage. He also appoints former negotiator Tse Ka Chun to talk to him. Directed by Herman Yau, starring Sean Lau, Francis Ng, Philip …
Crispin Glover is good at being odd. So good that they let him make a movie about it.
Slow, very slow coming-of-age process, set in Key West during the Vietnam War. (Historical markers: the Moon Shot; mooning; stringy long hair.) Goldie Hawn plays down, down, way down, as the single mother of a twelve-year-old boy, the unshowbizzy David Arnott. Lowest point: her interpretation of the topless dancer as …
Set in 1934 London, Ian McKellen plays Jimmy Erskine, the city's most feared drama critic, and Gemma Arterton plays Nina Land, the actress determined to win his approval. Adversaries, forced to take desperate measures to save their careers, they become entangled in a dangerous web of blackmail, ambition, and deception …
Sidney Lumet, as witness his Network, could never see much point in being humorous unless he could be lecturing you and hectoring you in the bargain. (Not too surprisingly, his climax here gives up all pretense of humor and settles down to strict lecture.) The topic this time out is …
Richard Pryor is a convicted con man who talks and shrieks and convulses his way into a psycho ward for observation and then has to impersonate a doctor after he escapes in the midst of a hurricane. The frequent injections of Sixties-vintage liberalism -- about things like the superior humanity, …
The old country-bumpkin-in-big-city routine. The city, as so often, is New York; the country, this time, is Australia -- the "bush." Paul Hogan, commercial spokesman for Australian tourism and Australian beer, is herein a pitchman for Australian "character" or Australian manhood or just himself. It was the surprise hit of …