Kate (Taylor Schilling) is a profoundly thoughtless narcissist reluctantly called into service to look after a niece (Bryn Vale) she barely knows. (Aunt Buck?) What’s more shocking than a senior level VP at a New Jersey hedge fund finding herself smack dab in the middle of a weeklong celebration of …
Do you remember when the prospect of Robert De Niro in a mob-related movie was a little bit thrilling? No? Oh, well. Maybe go rent The Freshman, which has Brando doing the same sort of self-mocking turn as De Niro does here. Then you can have an argument about which …
Like the same director's Le Bal, Ettore Scola's genealogical saga spans most of the 20th Century. Where Le Bal, moreover, was limited to a geographical scope scarcely broader than a dance floor, this one stays within the confines of a spacious second-floor apartment, whose transformations from era to era are …
Three-wheeled vehicle, with one big wheel (Sean Connery) and two little ones (Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick), about three generations of thieves who throw in together, over the initial objections of the middle-classified middle one, on a million-dollar caper. The situation is highly contrived (all the way to the ethnic mix …
Why should parents sacrifice their art by having children when it’s just as easy to incorporate the kids into the act as involuntary performance artists? Jason Bateman stars in and directs this blackish comedy about a suffocating couple (Christoper Walken and Maryann Plunkett), whose guerilla-style exercises in video tomfoolery made …
Arcane satire on modern middle-class Japanese education; or more specifically, on the ninth student from the bottom of his class, and his highly ambiguous (but highly effective) tutor. It is often difficult to pick out the joke, or even the basic point, of a scene; and such uncertainty is more …
No smoking in the house, if you read a book put it back where you found it, and while you’re at it, take the chance to bang one of the neighbors. Those are but three of the edicts Bruno (Cristián Carvajal) assigns his distant relative Martin (Jorge Becker) after the …
The male (and Hollywood) counterpart to Me Myself I, an alternative-reality switcheroo whereby a driven careerist, through the intervention of a magical mystical genie, gets to find out how life would have turned out if he had not gone off to London in '87 but had stayed home and married …
A worried son seeks to find a man as a partner for his single mother. Directed by Nuel Crisostomo Naval, starring Alden Richards and Sharon Cuneta.
The first scene, backed by a chorus of angel voices, has a fake spiritualist named Madame Blanche communing with the deceased loved ones of the filthy-rich Mrs. Rainbird. It's a lot of talk -- first one face, then the other, back and forth, interminably. The second scene has Blanche reiterating …
Written and directed by Parasuram, starring Vijay Deverakonda, Mrunal Thakur, Ajay Ghosh, and Divyansha Kaushik.
Christmas comedy about the gathering of a clan, and allies, in snowy New England at the holiday. The core family, name of Stone, numbers seven, so a lot is afoot: terminal cancer, a pregnancy, a gay-couple adoption (minorities within the minority: the couple is interracial and one-half hearing impaired), an …
A letter from beyond the grave informs an old Arkansas yokel (off whose tongue, "nigger" rolls easily) that his departed mother was not his biological mother, that he in fact is half black, and it dispatches him on a solemn odyssey to Chicago to look up his fully black half-brother. …