Documentary look at 13 barrier breaking women who bucked the odds and formed the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Directed by Charlene Fisk and Carrie Schrader.
A small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings in the days leading up to a heated mayoral election. As accusations fly and the threat of a masked killer darkens every street corner, the residents must race to uncover the truth before fear consumes the town. Presented by …
Loopy science fiction in orbit around the dream of life and love everlasting. It unfolds in three different time zones, that of the Spanish Inquisition, the present day, and some indeterminate future inside a floating bubble in outer space. These three spheres are tied together by the presence in each …
Miscast (Gary Cooper) and harmlessly blunted rendition of Ayn Rand's novel about a heaven-striving architect: it will never be admitted by Randians into their sacred canon. But director King Vidor, a visual stylist of some degree of flourish, gives it occasional jolts of Good Old American (or Good Old Hollywood) …
Another lump of evidence in the thickening dossier on Eric Rohmer as a Dirty Old Man. A dysfunctional dirty old man, if you will; a menace to no one except maybe the thrill-seeking filmgoer; just an urbane and courtly old gent who likes to surround himself with slim young pretties, …
The titular quartet, all adopted, all acknowledged "fuck-ups," are of two races, evenly divided, black and white, and reunited for the Turkey Day funeral of their sainted mother, murdered in the course of a liquor-store holdup. "I didn't come back here for the funeral," explains the Mark Wahlberg one, making …
A blissfully unmarried couple (Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn) make the rounds, one day over the holidays, to the four households of their respective divorced parents. Any truth in the humor is buried in crudeness. The classy supporting cast (Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Voight) proves to be an …
An exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood that reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, unpacking a complex family history through intimate interviews and performance to examine how the Tunisian woman’s two eldest were radicalized. Casting professional actresses as the missing daughters, along with acclaimed Egyptian-Tunisian actress …
Largely lifeless re-creation of a microscopic piece of recent history, the abduction of the American ambassador by a group of Brazilian radicals in Rio in 1969; a bit like a de-energized Costa-Gavras film of that period. Various factions and individuals are represented fairly, noninflammatorily, but flatly. The average viewer is …
The old imperialist warhorse, regroomed and re-shod for a new generation: the expurgation of "Fuzzy-Wuzzies" from the vocabulary; the elevation of a native African (Djimon Hounsou, of Spielberg's Amistad) above our civilized Englishmen in nobility and bravery; the post-Vietnam doubts as to the wisdom of military intervention in a distant …
Dad (Matthew Goode) might have used his surprise holiday as an excuse to reconcile with Mom. Instead, his son Ross (Teddie Malleson-Allen) is greeted at the lake house by her replacement parent (Paula Patton) and his surrogate siblings Maudie (Ellie-Mae Siame) and the smashingly appointed Smash (Ashley Aufderheide). Forced to …
How does the military honor a soldier shot down on the field of battle? By firing rifles into the sky. Mammas, don’t let your babies grow up to be soldiers. Zohara Antebi left her son's circumcision in mid-celebration after overhearing one of the women standing cradle side remark, "What a …
Richard Lester's appendage to his Three Musketeers, a year previous, dispenses more of the same: Alexandre Dumas's fancily woven intrigues, acted out by blundering oafs, exclaiming things like "oof" and "oops," in a frantic knockabout comedy style. Prolonged to this length, the never-ending escapes and recoveries of the characters go …