One bosom buddy is getting married; the other is getting desperate not to fall too far behind. (Could the video-store clerk, even with his taste for Freak Show VII, be a prospect?) Nicole Holofcener's relationship comedy, otherwise known as a "girl movie," is cozy and warm and not especially sustaining. …
Overdue approach to the Vietnam experience -- from a specifically black angle. But stiff-jointed and stomping, especially entering and exiting the civilian-life flashbacks. Allen Payne, Joe Morton; written, directed by Preston Whitmore II.
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The title and the timber are taken from the 1973 biopic on Sheriff Buford Pusser, but this remake-slash-update-slash-relocation is so generic — cleaning up the gambling, drugs, and corruption in a Northwest mill town — that no attribution was really required. Perhaps it would have been better called Walking Wide, …
A carbon copy of his Phenix City Story (1955), this Phil Karlson wingding tells about an ex-soldier who returns to his Southern roots and decides to clean up the organized vice that has settled in during his absence. This is a somewhat regrettable decision, because the tacky roadside gambling-hustling joints …
The Camino de Santiago is a Christian pilgrim trail that stretches across Spain for 500 miles and ends at the reputed tomb of the apostle James. Back when it was a pagan pilgrim trail, it continued on to a stretch of beach known as "the End of the World." Today, …
This is what dinosaurs do: they walk. Often, they are looking for food. Sometimes, they are looking for a new place to live. You can walk with them! They also eat. Some of them eat other dinosaurs.
Two hours of killing Jews to awaken audiences to the heretofore unheard of notion that Nazi's committed atrocious acts. Based on a true story (so it must be good). In an attempt to help remove every Jew from Budapest, a couple of young Hungarians get their hands on SS uniforms …
Total mush, and uncommonly runny mush at that, about a make-believe marriage between an already married WWII vet and an already pregnant señorita, the deflowered flower of a noble Napa winegrowing family. (The meet-cute: she barfs on his uniform aboard a train.) Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Arau brings to Hollywood his …
What do bros (in this case, Robert Redford) do once they get old? In A Walk in the Woods, they get sick of attending funerals, decide to out-hike Death on the Appalachian Trail, and tell the old lady (Emma Thompson) where she can stick her objections to stupidly risking one's …
Madame Bovary on the Borscht Belt, a Jewish housewife in a dalliance with the travelling "blouse man." (For a touch of authenticity, Mal Z. Lawrence has a cameo as the obligatory stand-up comic.) An inconsequential little domestic tempest, set amid the momentous events of the summer of '69: Woodstock and …
A cold-blooded Mossad assassin, under the guise of an Israeli tour guide, cozies up to the two adult grandchildren of an ancient Nazi still at large. Shaken but not stirred by the recent suicide of his wife, he is not happy with his assignment, especially once he learns that the …