Genealogy-obsessed Randy Schoenberg drags his reluctant teenage son Joey on a journey of discovery through 500 years of family history, all the way back to the founders of the Jewish ghetto in Venice, Italy. Grandson of the famous composer Arnold Schoenberg, Randy is renowned for recovering Nazi-looted art, but his …
Two neglected wives under the same family roof find comfort in one another's arms and beds. The setting of present-day New Delhi (pallidly photographed, but with gritty details of daily life not found in Indian-made films: this one was produced in Canada) is insufficient to breathe life into the axe-grinding …
Live broadcast of the benefit concerts happening to help Los Angeles recover from the devastating fires.
Lampedusa, located 70 kilometers off the African coast and 120 kilometers from Sicily, has become a landing point for over 400,000 African and Middle Eastern migrants, all believing they’ll find safe harbor somewhere in Europe. Having spent months filming on the island, director Gianfranco Rosi returns with this quietly observed …
A let's-kick-butt military operation against a noncontroversial butt: a South American drug cartel. The weapons of choice are helicopters (our Apaches vs. their Scorpion), and the aerial combat gets those old jingoistic juices flowing. The preliminaries are as abbreviated as they are predictable. With Nicolas Cage, Sean Young, and Tommy …
In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Katherine Parr, reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII. Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished, beheaded, or dead. When Henry appoints her as Regent, the …
The simple-mindedness of the enterprise is pretty well symbolized by its taking of its title from a 1957 Robert Parrish masterpiece, without taking the double meaning at the same time. Steven Seagal, as an ecology cop on the trail of a toxic polluter, plops down his famous scowl, his famous …
One of the minor side effects of the Soviet Union's continued bad behavior in public is that, despite the moral chaos introduced into spy fiction by John le Carré and others, it is still possible to paint Cold War tensions in terms of straightforward melodrama. It perhaps requires someone as …
Inane canine comedy about a screen star called Rexxx -- no, not a bestial porn star, but the big-budget action star of Jurassic Bark and The Fast and the Furriest -- who discovers his true vocation as a firefighting mascot. The human emotions and human villainy are a touch heavy, …
Based on the true story of Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, a boxer from Flint, Mich., who trained to become the first woman in her country's history to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport. Directed by Rachel Morrison.
Credulous retelling of a UFO tall tale: the alien abduction of Travis Walton from the Arizona timberland for five days in 1975. The movie has many of the problems of true stories (lack of imagination, lack of vision, lack of resolution), without the compensating believability. The recollection of the actual …
A ravishing young Swiss governess lowers herself to the job of baby-maker, a broodmare for a British blueblood of concealed identity ("I have a reputation to protect"), so as to liberate her father from debtors' prison. A baby is produced on schedule, a girl, to be spirited away as if …