Twelve superbly drilled, highly financed, and heavily armed international terrorists find themselves overmatched against a vacationing New York cop in bare feet. The action, set almost entirely inside an L.A. skyscraper, is a pyrotechnical marvel. But the overriding marvel is how action so marvelous has come to seem, in the …
NYPD Det. John McClane (Bruce Willis) is presently on suspension for undisclosed reasons, and hence hung over and unshaven, when a massive explosion rips through the Bonwit Teller department store (no casualty report: such is the level of human interest); and the German-accented, nursery-rhyming mad bomber (Jeremy Irons) phones up …
We come galloping out of the gate, practically tripping over an overabundance of cracker-barrel narration (spoken by Billy Crudup) and characters’ names spelled out in the corners of the frame. In the numerous physical altercations Ben Gibbon (Diego Boneta) has been in since the age of five, the win to …
One type of queen portrays another type of queen: Charles Busch, who adapted his own stage play, dolls himself up in drag to impersonate a faded Hollywood diva, in this salute to, or spoof of, the women's pictures of old. (The diva's husband, for contrast, is a Stanley Kramer-ish producer …
Were it the '70s, the radio spot would begin, “In public, she was an Instagram model. In private, she put the ‘die' in diary. They killed her friends. They had her dog impounded. Now someone is fighting back!” Any story, even a five-minute chunk of one explaining how “influencers," models …
Leather-jacketed Brit literally bumps into an old schoolmate (bike bumps into cab), but the boy once known as Karl is now a prim and proper young lady named Kim. The course of romance thereafter is right-mindedly, none too humorously, rather boringly instructional ("So you're telling me Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson …
An aspiring actor undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. However, his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare as he becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost. Directed by Aaron Schimberg and starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, and Adam Pearson.
Under the chipper direction of Joe McGrath, this cross-breeding of British Goon Show silliness with a Disney formula animal story is a surprising success, and probably more fun for grownups than for tots. McGrath's sophisticated cartoon technique, which is rich in little details as well as in extravagant whimsies, gives …
While house-sitting at the posh home of one of her clients, a yoga instructor’s (Rosemarie DeWitt) husband (co-writer Jake Johnson) unearths a gun and what appears to be a human bone buried on the property. This plot gizmo is dispensed with almost as fast as it arrives. This leaves ample …
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