Lapsed cultist Geppetto (Michael Shannon), and vacationing state trooper Jiminy (Joel Edgerton) kidnap Pinocchio (in this case an immaculately conceived nine-year-old starchild played by Jaeden Lieberher) and race to reunite the lad with the Blue Fairy (Kirsten Dunst) and his mother ship. Is it really a good idea to leave …
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the town of Newtown, Connecticut turns to art as a means of healing the community. This marks TV director Lloyd Kramer's (Report from Ground Zero, Liz and Dick) first big screen foray.
Steven Okazaki’s matter-of-fact documentary, narrated in matter-of-fact monotone by Keanu Reeves, displays a polite reticence toward is own tantalizing premise: that noted and prolific Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune had much in common with the samurai he so frequently portrayed. To wit: a man of great discipline and power, a strong, …
Ditzy dipsomaniacs (Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick) bucking for a free Hawaiian vacation fill the need of the titular siblings (Adam Devine, whose performance fails to live up to his last name, and Zac Efron). The laughs never start as these four knotheads, whittled from the same block of wood, …
Mike (Armie Hammer) and Tommy (Tom Cullen) are Marine snipers who fail to neutralize their target. The disappointed voice at the other end of the walkie-talkie informs the pair that ground vehicles weren’t requested for their mission. The only way home is on foot through a mine-laden desert. For the …
A 10-year-old girl, suddenly stricken with an intestinal disorder that blocks evacuation, endures more graphic onscreen medical procedures than did Linda Blair in The Exorcist before a three-story tumble down the inside of a hollow tree trunk literally knocks the crap back into her. Or was it a miracle? One …
Children plays a cruel trick. After the ponderous opening monologue about whether anything you do really matters (this is adapted from a YA novel, after all), the opening is vintage Tim Burton: a splendidly gangly social outcast (Asa Butterfield) gets a panicked call from his beloved, dementia-addled grandpa (Terrence Stamp), …
Puccini's Madame Butterfly, morphed into a musical and set in '70s Vietnam, is currently the 15th-longest running show in Broadway history.
Barbara Kopple’s documentary on the R&B great’s attempt to make the show go on as she battles cancer.
Following a pair of sojourns to the adorable Marigold Hotel, John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) takes a giant step forward with this perfectly timed tale of how to draw and quarter a lobbyist. “She pees standing up,” is how one of her colleagues describes Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain), an influence …
Midway through, disgraced demigod Maui calls spunky quest-taker Moana a princess. She objects by noting that she’s actually a chief’s daughter, but he’ll have none of it: “You’re wearing a skirt, and you’ve got an animal sidekick — you’re a princess.” At another point, he warns her that if she …
Midway through, disgraced demigod Maui calls spunky quest-taker Moana a princess. She objects by noting that she’s actually a chief’s daughter, but he’ll have none of it: “You’re wearing a skirt, and you’ve got an animal sidekick — you’re a princess.” At another point, he warns her that if she …
Midway through, disgraced demigod Maui calls spunky quest-taker Moana a princess. She objects by noting that she’s actually a chief’s daughter, but he’ll have none of it: “You’re wearing a skirt, and you’ve got an animal sidekick — you’re a princess.” At another point, he warns her that if she …