Sgt. James Harper (Chris Pine, also producing) is a Special Forces agent honorably discharged without benefits because his blood work came back “filthy” with pain-killing drugs. Back home, his wife (Gillian Armstrong) and son barely recognize the man seated at the kitchen table while his actions — who repairs a …
A sidelined ex-cop, beaten and humiliated by those he swore to serve and protect, watches from the periphery, trying to piece together the motivation behind the crime. The pair of self-inflated punks, on the lam after the botched phone store robbery, opt to hole up in an apartment occupied by …
We descend from the clouds, an angel’s point-of-view guiding us through what was once the childhood home of Patricio Guzmán. It’s been over 40 years since the director left Chile, around the same time Pinochet came to power. Nothing about the Cordillera is revolutionary — it’s a veritable time machine …
The plague that began at the Scramble’s Bat Soup Co. in Wuhan washes up on American shores, instantly turning all who come in contact with the invisible enemy into a horde of flesh-eating ghouls. A little over a month under lockdown, and already a feature-length attempt to novelize the novel …
Gene Kelly made his first big Technicolor splash while on loan to Columbia for this Rita Hayworth vehicle. It marks the first partnering of Kelly and then choreographer Stanley Donen. (The two would later collaborate on such M-G-M musical milestones as On the Town and It's Always Fair Weather.) Director …
Borrowing both its title and premise from a pair of John Wayne movies, director Thomas Bidegain’s update of The Searchers swaps out the Comanche for Islamists as a vengeful father (François Damiens) goes in quest of a daughter who’s disappeared with her Arab boyfriend. It isn’t until Dad hits Antwerp …
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 …
Amazon Studios’ second theatrical release is this prime futuristic relationship dramedy — set in Brooklyn and shot (almost) entirely in black-and-white — that packs more visual and verbal wit than 90 percent of its pricier indie counterparts. First-time director and co-writer Benjamin Dickinson stars as David, an arrogant ad exec …
An update of the director’s same-titled second film, the one that caused David Cronenberg scholar Kim Newman to remark, "It's possible to be boring and interesting at the same time." Remember Crash, Cronenberg’s ode to a society so desensitized the only way to achieve sexual satisfaction is after a car …
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 …
The reason Daniel (Samson Steine) and younger sister Sarah (Bianca Ghilardi-Hellsten) are seeking shelter in the home of Gerda (Anna Sofie Skarholt) and Otto’s (Bo Lindquist-Ellingsen) parents is dispensed with before the opening credits close: it wasn’t safe for Jews of any age to be living in occupied Norway in …
Lakeith Stanfield has been inching his way toward stardom with memorable work in Short Term 12, Snowden, and Miles Ahead. Crown Heights affords him more screen time than he’s ever had before, but while he’s superb in the lead, the actor’s time would have been better spent on something besides …
A haughty fashion designer (Emma Thompson) and the seamstress most likely to dethrone her (Emma Stone) wage battle in this, the third live-action attempt on the part of the studio to ransack the Disney Vault, cancel originality, and in doing so, defile a classic. And what could be crueler than …