Chatty hitman in polemical discussion with his intended target, his client, and (by phone) his analyst. Contrived and tedious talkfest adapted from his own stage play by Chazz Palminteri, who also plays the hitman, and "opened up" with redundantly illustrative flashbacks. Cher, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Mazursky; directed by Mazursky.
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Faith-based rom-com starring Peta Murgatroyd, Robert Krantz, and Ed Asner.
A screenplay by Ingmar Bergman placed into the directorial, or custodial, hands of one of his former actresses and off-screen lovers, Liv Ullmann. (Not their first such collaboration: see Private Confessions, 1997.) The plain lettering and plain background of the opening credits, the absence of any music behind them, the …
A stranger receives mysterious callings compelling him to search for a boy lost in an abandoned mine. Based on a true story, directed by Garrett Batty and starring John Michael Finley, Cameron Arnett, Kirby Heyborne, Jasen Wade, and Tanner Gillman.
Code names, those are, of two young Americans, one an amateur falconer and National Security employee, the other a drug dealer and user, who sell state secrets to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. John Schlesinger's version of Robert Lindsey's nonfiction best-seller provides adequate information on the how and the …
The second film by the one-name Tarsem (unused surname, Singh) differs by two letters from his first film, The Cell. It differs by little in other ways as well, a gagging phantasmagoria of debased and diluted surrealism. (Suggested title for his next opus: The Pill.) The story, a fiction-within-fiction wherein …
The second film by the one-name Tarsem (unused surname, Singh) differs by two letters from his first film, The Cell. It differs by little in other ways as well, a gagging phantasmagoria of debased and diluted surrealism. (Suggested title for his next opus: The Pill.) The story, a fiction-within-fiction wherein …
Down-to-earth flatfoot (Denzel Washington, always good to look at, to watch closely, to study) on the trail of an otherworldly serial killer, a fallen angel called Azazel, who has the ability, while manifesting no form of his own, to move from body to body at the merest touch. This makes …
Otto Preminger's plunge into wartime fatalism and pessimism. Nice nocturnal atmosphere and bluesy mood, but routine and mechanical in its marriage-for-money plot. With Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere, John Carradine.
Wong Kar-wai's eye-straining stylistic experiment in the bulging effects of wide-angle lenses. A worthy followup to his Chungking Express, sharing with it the structure of interwoven plotlines, the subject matter of yearning youth, and the attitude of cutesy insouciance. In short, it's lesser Wong, as compared, let's say, to Days …
Under the neon lights in Hong Kong's nightscape, the lives of a contract killer and his infatuated partner, a drifter searching for her ex-lover, and an eccentric mute wanted by the police, all cross paths. Written and directed by Wong Kar Wai, starring Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie …
Carol Reed film, with a screenplay by Graham Greene, about an unobtrusive servant (a beautifully nuanced Ralph Richardson) in the French embassy in London, who has a special bond with the ambassador's mischievous little boy and a hush-hush extramarital link with a French typist (the too glamorous Michèle Morgan) and …
Two lonely people (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen) meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives. Their path towards this goal is clouded by the man’s alcoholism, lost phone numbers, not knowing each other’s names or …
Shell-shocked veteran John Garfield goes on the hunt for the killer of the soldier who saved him from a Nazi death camp. Based on the novel by Dorothy Hughes, this film noir was directed by Richard Wallace, a relatively obscure subject for further research.