Tried-and-true thriller formula: the husband who's not the man his wife thinks he is. Aside from him and her, this one's a bit underpopulated (Goldie Hawn not being the most sharing kind of star) and, partly because of that, a bit unsurprising. But not undiverting even so. Smooth, slow, ominous; …
Based on the classic Michael Noonan novel, "December Boys" is the story of four orphan teenagers growing up behind the closed doors of a Catholic convent in outback Australia during the 1960s. As the boys watch younger kids get adopted by loving families, they begin to realize that as they …
What lies beyond the walls of the gated community where our hard-working housemaid heroine recently began working? Would you believe a nudist colony?
Shaky suspense film premised on a mousy accountant tumbling into an exclusive Manhattan sex club, anonymous one-nighters with uniformly beautiful career women: “It’s intimacy without intricacy.” Shakier as it goes. With Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Natasha Henstridge, and Charlotte Rampling; directed by Marcel Langenegger.
In the hands of crackerjack conjurer Ricky Jay, a deck of playing cards holds the same potential threat as a ninja warrior’s throwing stars. Many remember Jay’s card-flinging act on Merv or the Carson show, while others know him as David Mamet’s good-luck charm. This mesmerizing documentary follows Jay as …
Park Chan-wook's film stars Tang Wei.
Winner of Best Director at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook presents a film starring Tang Wei.
The Christmas spirit turns competitive -- keeping ahead of the Joneses, straight across the street -- and the competition is laughlessly lopsided. With Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Davis, and Kristin Chenoweth; directed by John Whitesell.
Set in the pandemic-stricken times in Noida, a struggling Malayali couple nurture the dream of migrating out of the country for a better life. A sensitive and manipulated video clip is circulated amongst the co-workers of the factory where the couple work and it unleashes unexpected emotional, social and marital …
A child may be dying of cancer. We get to suffer along with his pretty French parents, the child’s agony mercifully under shown. Director Valérie Donzelli wants poignant sincerity, and her actors occasionally oblige. But her riffs through the old New Wave playbook (notably Jules et Jim) mixed with music-driven …
A group of French-Canadian academics (History department) get together and talk sex, sex, sex -- all day and into the night. First it's the women by themselves at the workout gym, reminiscing about the sadist, the two blacks in Martinique, the Sicilian cop, the French tennis pro, the wife-swapping club, …
Penelope Spheeris's documentary on the punk-rock phenomenon in Los Angeles, or at least those aspects of it which can fit comfortably under her chosen title. "It's the only form of revolution left in the Eighties," philosophizes Robert Biggs, publisher of the punk organ, Slash. But on the evidence, it isn't …
The second sequel picks up not from the previous one in 1988, which dealt with the heavy-metal phenomenon, but rather reverts to the slightly passé punk-rock subject matter of the first documentary in 1981. Except that it deals less with the bands (though Final Conflict and Naked Aggression grab a …