Winning performances by Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse coupled with a thoughtful exploration of the daily rigors encountered by patients with cystic fibrosis are the main thrust behind this doomed-romance that’s worthy of the Lifetime Channel. (Even the score resembles a Cosentyx commercial.) No one told screenwriters Mikki Daughtry …
Two teens with cystic fibrosis meet in a hospital and fall in love.
Fictitious black chart-busters of the 1960s, in the mold of the Temptations and the Four Tops. Lovingly re-created vocal styles and dance steps; drudgingly cooked-up "personal drama." Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Chuck Patterson, Diahann Carroll; directed by Townsend.
A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through.
A linked chain of tortured Torontonians, with an uneven distribution of sensibility among them: an eye doctor who's going deaf; a masseuse who's losing touch with her teenage daughter; a cake-maker who lacks taste; etc. A painfully serious, almost stricken, movie: "sensitive" as an open wound. With Mary-Louise Parker, Molly …
Irene (Margherita Buy) works for a company that evaluates luxury hotels. This means that you will see many luxury hotels over the course of the film, and they are indeed luxurious. Personal butlers, spa treatments, motorized curtains, palatial bathrooms, scented sheets — Irene sees all and judges all. (You almost …
Emily Blunt is so honestly appealing that she saves moments, but nothing can save the film. Director Nicholas Stoller wrote this glib junk with actor Jason Segel, who has many moments of stupid, fumbling vulnerability as a young chef resentful when teacher Blunt outpaces him. Engaged, they push off marriage, …
Clint Eastwood, sorely trying the patience of anyone still hoping for a sixth installment of Dirty Harry, is plainly not yet done paying penance for the casual, callous, and prolific violence of his earlier years. And this elegiac war film makes an essential, an unmissable, piece of the entire cycle, …
Story of a a Robin Hood-like figure.
A soul-(and-body)-laid-bare affair, shot in the sandpaper-grained black-and-white of a bottom-drawer nudie circa 1964, about an actress whose professional repertoire ranges from Racine to a carnival strip show with a stuffed monkey, and whose private repertoire ranges from mad love to madder love. It's unmistakably a virtuoso role, to which …
On a minimalist, abstract, cloistered set (invaded at one point by a passing siren), Carlos Saura stages a sort of flamenco jam session or all-star variety show, representing a full range of styles and moods, sometimes taxing in its exhaustiveness, more often exhilarating. Conspicuously missing is Antonio Gades, the dancer …
A trip to the recent past (1963), as though to a very strange place. And indeed the filmmakers trot out some truly horrible dresses, swimsuits, dance steps — but also some still irresistible pop songs: "Stand by Me," "Just One Look," "Da Doo Ron Ron," "One Fine Day," "Heat Wave." …