Isabel (Michelle Williams), the manager of an Indian orphanage, travels to New York to pick up a generous endowment check. She soon learns that the daughter she thought was put up for adoption at birth by her ex Oscar (Billy Crudup) is alive and well and living with her father …
Or: late-term abortionists are people, too. After Tiller looks at the (very) few doctors in America willing to perform late-term abortions in the aftermath of Dr. George Tiller's murder. From the trailer: "It's guilt no matter which way you go. Guilt if you go ahead and do what we're doing, …
The remake of Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past needn't detain anyone longer than to diagnose it as part of the Hollywood grave-robbing epidemic, and to paint a large red cross outside the theater door. What would seem to have been an untransportable Forties storyline has, as in Body Heat, …
Not too glossy or glossed-over a portrait of Jackie Kallen (a hoarse, coarse, brassy, sassy Meg Ryan), a woman in a man's game, manager of a prizefighter whom she discovered in a brawl with two crackheads: "Reminds me of Marvin Hagler." Not too believable a portrait, nevertheless. Charles S. Dutton, …
Vapid paranoid thriller about mind-control through TV commercials. Surely the ad business, to say nothing of this movie, ought to be on guard against more pertinent and persistent evils than the insertion of subliminal political messages in TV spots for No Sweat anti-perspirant. The name of one of the bit …
A spy with a mysterious past goes on a mission to uncover the truth about a dangerous terrorist organization. Directed by Surender Reddy, starring Akhil Akkineni, Mammootty, Dino Morea, and Sakshi Vaidya.
Directed by Kareem El-Adl and starring Akram Hosny, Bayoumi Fouad, Monther Rayahneh, and Asma Abulyazeid.
A dip in the frigid briney compounded by a bolt of lightning endows Blake Lively with eternal youth, and all she does with her super power is dress well and fall for some rich schmo with whom she shares no chemistry (Michiel Huisman). So little happens in the way of …
Bottle movie about traveling business partners and their unusually gluttonous clients.
Directorial miscasting: Martin Scorsese moves from the agitated, violent, profane turf of Mean Streets and Raging Bull into the genteel neighborhood of Edith Wharton, of "fine literature," and of the Manhattan haut monde of the 1870s. He answers the opening bell in his customary Smoking Joe fashion: rushing in, reeling …
Writer-director Kim Jee-woon brings John Le Carré-style espionage to the world of Korea's struggle for independence from Japan in the '30s. Meaning: the deepest convictions of the human heart are your only hope for surviving a world where deceit and betrayal are not only common but expected, but it's a …
Anjelica Huston devises her own personal solution to the shortage of parts for mature women: directing herself in the lead role of a widowed mother of seven, in Dublin circa the middle late Sixties. ("Seven children and" -- demonstrating her unfamiliarity with Masters and Johnson -- "not one organism to …
A young nun in a provincial Canadian cloister has given birth to a baby, soon found discarded in a waste basket. A true innocent, she may or may not have known she was pregnant, may or may not know who the father is, may or may not have strangled the …