A fairy tale of divorce, one that imagines an blissful way out of the trauma brought on by Mom and Dad putting a bullet in the love that gave rise to your existence. Julianne Moore is a comically narcissistic aging rocker; Steve Coogan is her gotta-ramble mate, and Onata Aprile …
A multi-character (pregnant) chick flick with five converging storylines about expectant couples. Don’t expect much in the way of wit or originality from this Lifetime Channel stray, but the appealing cast and cinematographer Xavier Pérez Grobet’s balanced ‘Scope frames help defray much of the pain induced by a labored script. …
Jesse Eisenberg (so hilarious in The Social Network) joins Melissa Leo (equally hilarious in The Fighter) and Tracy Morgan (occasionally hilarious on 30 Rock) for the always-reliable classical-musician-meets-drug-dealer combo.
Four friends vacationing from Australia (Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price, Teresa Palmer, and Anthony Starr) party the night away at a remote Cambodian holiday destination only to wake the next morning with big heads, minus a chum, and unable to recall the events of the previous evening. It’s not an implausible …
Daniel Radcliffe takes his first (modest) steps away from Harry Potter. Wisely, he does not stray too far: It’s still England, there are still ghosts to deal with, and the setting is still otherworldly. Only here, it’s a haunted house in Victorian times. Director James Watkins gets the rotting look …
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis are moms on a mission to battle the bureaucracy and transform the teachers at a struggling school and create an inner-city institution of educational excellence.
Those expecting a Jean-Paul Sartre biopic will be disappointed to find instead the uninspired tale of a plagiarist. While honeymooning in Paris, a struggling young writer (Bradley Cooper) discovers a hand-written manuscript hidden inside the battered attache case his wife (Zoe Saldana) finds in an antique store. Five years later, …
Long ago, Zeus used the Spear of Something or Other to defeat his father Cronos, now imprisoned in Tartarus. But now people have stopped praying, and the gods’ work — Tartarus included — is coming undone. What to do? Reassemble the Spear, of course, and make sure half-human Perseus handles …
What a concept: children's playthings with human neuroses. Oh, wait, this isn't Toy Story? Nope, just a Disney rehash of same, substituting video game characters for action figures. You know - it's what the kids are into these days, even if there is a hefty dose of Gen-X nostalgia to …
A ten-years-on followup to the gay Israeli wartime love story Yossi & Jagger. Yossi - a closeted, aging, thickening Israeli doctor - hasn't had a lover since Jagger's death during a nighttime ambush. Lover? He hasn't had a life. (Nothing says "quiet desperation" like a scene of a man unbuttoning …
Spoiler alert: it ends with the bad guy getting killed. More hurt from Kathryn Bigelow in this docudrama (read: hand-held) account of the hunt for Usama Bin Laden. From its conception to execution, the American government’s “Yippee ki yay!” murder of Bin Laden had Hollywood blockbuster written all over it. …