Joyce Bernal directs a film loosely based on the novel The Devil Wears Prada, in which a powerful but cancer-ridden businesswoman hires a caregiver who turns out to care about more than just sick bodies.
Scholars and feminists have for years cried out for a humorless remake of Bubble Boy with an African-American female in the lead. At last their prayers have been answered.
A film that lives up to its title. Forgive the prudish tone, but for once, I’d have gladly sacrificed the f-bombs and duelling dildos that warranted an R rating so that parents would have felt more comfortable taking the family to a madcap mother-daughter (Michelle Yeoh and Stephanie Hsu) bonding …
The World Premier of Andrea Coleman's full-length surf film.
A road film in a sparse landscape, an adaptation of a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. It follows the quest -- the "very rigid search," in the uncertain English of the Ukrainian guide and translator -- for the peasant woman who in WWII saved the life of the late grandfather …
Dan Rush directs his padded adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short story, Why Don’t You Dance? Will Ferrell, as the central character, is a bit of an obstacle. He plays an upper-middle-class alcoholic whose wife leaves him on the same day that he loses his job. He returns home to find …
During a diamond heist, one of the security escorts steals the diamonds and flees. Fellow security escorts Yau Shing and Jelly are forced to help the robber track down the diamond. While doing so, they stumble into a secluded village. While they clash with the weird villagers, the three men …
When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father's bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it's your own father? Directed by François Ozon, starring Sophie Marceau, André Dussollier, …
Wim Wenders’s latest takes us through 12 years in the life of a writer who accidentally ran over a child and the emotional cauterization of feelings the tragedy visits upon all parties involved. Wenders can photograph nothing and make it interesting, which is kind of what he does with screenwriter …
Woody Allen's sarcastic takeoff on Dr. Reuben's slow-witted sex guide, retaining only the title and the question-answer format, is set up as a series of seven blue-joke skits, each done as a parody of a distinct film genre; the cause for laughter is not always so distinct. With Gene Wilder, …
Clint Eastwood vehicle about a psychopathic hooker and an unbeatable streetfighter who decides to take a dive when he realizes the high price of fame. The foregoing information is provided as a courtesy to those who haven't the tolerance to sit through two plotless hours of brawls, country-western songs, slapstick …
Traditional women's picture, transplanted to the exotic locale of a black Louisiana backwater, and touched up with trendy occultism: clairvoyance, voodoo, "magic realism." A first effort by actress-turned-writer-director Kasi Lemmons, who's highly sympathetic but none too commanding in her new roles, overdependent on an undependable child actress (Jurnee Smollett). The …
A chance to see how the Swedish filmmaker Mikael Håfström might have got tabbed to direct the American thriller, Derailed. This two-years-earlier film, set in the time of Charlie Parker, Buddy Holly, and James Dean, is not a thriller per se, but rather a brutalizer, the story of an abused …