A teen cancer romance with bracingly dark comedic shadings. Anna (Essie Davis) and Henry (Ben Mendelsohn) will do anything to make their dying daughter Milla (Eliza Scanlen) happy, even if it means inviting Moses (Toby Wallace), her drug-pushing, face-tatted miscreant of a boyfriend, to come live with them. They even …
Remake and update of Buster Keaton's Seven Chances (1925), an extreme example of how the addition of sound can be a subtraction, how more reality can be less believable. Renée Zellweger, who has shown she can hold her own against Meryl Streep (One True Thing) as well as carry a …
Bachelorette takes the great emblem of feminine matrimonial anxiety — the wedding dress — and goes to town on it. First, it’s torn. Then it gets bled on. Eventually, it’s also stained with both semen and vomit (the bodily fluid trifecta!), but not before it gets stuffed into a garbage …
This plays as part of the 2017 San Diego International Film Festival. According to the program notes, "The Bachelors is about a mourning father who moves across the country with his teenage son for a private school teaching job, after the early death of his wife. Their lives begin to …
Beatle lore for the devotee, centered around the original fifth member of the band, Stuart Sutcliffe, whose first love was painting and whose head was easily turned by a pretty German photographer during a gig at a Hamburg strip club. The nondevotee will find the dramatic issues ("All he does …
Harry Hunkele’s documentary is a methodical, absorbing view of the 1978-79 peace accords between Egypt and Israel, spurred by Egypt’s bold leader Anwar Sadat, nurtured tenaciously by President Jimmy Carter, and finally accepted by Israel’s tough, fearful Menachem Begin. It traces the byzantine maneuvers, often in secret, that led to …
Some gorgeous images of fire, swirling and undulating with almost a shifting-sand, simmering-pot sort of subtlety. Also some standard fireball images of the kind you get when any One-Man Army launches a bazooka rocket into the opposition's ammo dump. And while the finale socks you with spectacular sights at approximately …
After losing the woman of his dreams, Merlin moves to Las Vegas to pursue work as a magician, only to get hired as the frontman in a revival of the notorious Black male stripper crew, the Chocolate Chips. Starring Wesley Snipes and Tiffany Haddish.
Pleasant enough, if rather pat, romantic comedy about two Alabama losers, a twenty-dollar prostitute and an out-of-trim palooka, hooking up and heading toward California with nothing but dreams in their pockets. Sally Field is something of a problem, tending, whenever she attempts to be comical, to exhibit behavior that has …
A time-lapse credit sequence opens the picture, offering a split-screen, picture-postcard parade of the four seasons as they work their magic on a vineyard in the Burgundy region in France. What begins as a more straightforward Sideways soon blossoms into a Romance of the Land drama, aided and abetted byAlexis …