The rare screen sequel that doesn't announce the fact in its title. Keeping the name of the Larry McMurtry novel on which it is based, it brings back the highly colored characters of Terms of Endearment, plus some new ones (or just grown-up ones), and submits them to the crayon …
Honorable simplification. In Icíar Bollaín’s film, Gael García Bernal is the idealistic director and Luis Tosar the tough producer of a film being made in the Bolivian Andes. Modern villagers play the Carib Indians subjugated by Columbus, and as politics invade the production, themes arrive on tracks of editorial cinema: …
It has a viable premise, a hybridization of the derelict spacecraft and the haunted house. And it has a chewable mystery: where has the spaceship been for the past seven years when it was supposed to be exploring the boundaries of the solar system? and what happened to its crew? …
Punny title: the destructive android, a miniskirted nuclear bomb, is called Eve-8. (And naturally there will be talk of "playing God.") Fashioned in her creator's image, and programmed with her creator's memories, Eve gets switched into "battlefield mode" whenever anyone calls her a "bitch," which happens with regularity. The bias …
Director Andy Tennant's application for membership in the Peter Pan Club. It purports to be the True Story of Cinderella, as told to the Brothers Grimm after publication of their own fanciful account, to "set the record straight." The teller (the imperious Jeanne Moreau) proclaims herself a direct descendant, with …
The opening text lets you know that prior to 1996, no one had died during a commercial expedition to the world's highest peak. So now you know what's coming. The first part of Baltasar Kormakur's version of the events recounted in John Krakauer's bestseller Into Thin Air serves to introduce …
The opening text lets you know that prior to 1996, no one had died during a commercial expedition to the world's highest peak. So now you know what's coming. The first part of Baltasar Kormakur's version of the events recounted in John Krakauer's bestseller Into Thin Air serves to introduce …
Drab little indie about an impoverished teenage girl who sets her cap for the overprivileged rich kid. Writer-director Enid Zentelis extends her empathy all the way through to an impoverished imagination. Distributed to theaters on DVD rather than in cans of film, to ensure that it would look worse on …
Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell, absent from American screens for a quarter-century, and perhaps best remembered for the early-Seventies diptych of The Emigrants and The New Land, returns with another period piece, the period of pre-WWI, a period that appears to predate color, in an all-brown, almost sepia palette. The faithful …
Something to do with the grooming of handsome young homosexuals to service the needs of a privileged class of Australian legislators and judges. The secret-society aspect, with its strict hierarchy, initiation rites, and arcane symbols, certainly appeals to the imagination whether or not to reason. It appeals, anyway, to the …
The film tells the stories of three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and instead came out as their authentic selves. From actor and screenwriter River …
A power outage during a wedding celebration lasts just long enough for one of the guests (Carla Campra) to be abducted (and later held for ransom) while Paco (Javier Bardem) fetches a generator. Given the paucity of visual information and/or character backstory that’s doled out during the 20 minutes that …
A single gynecologist asks a coworker to pose as her date at a family wedding. Guess what? Her ex's name is also on the guest list! Hilarity presumable ensues in this romantic comedy from Mexican director Catalina Aguilar Mastretta.