A World War II epic from the losers' perspective, continued.
Better title: Generation Greenfield. Photographer and documentarian Lauren Greenfield is an anthropologist of American excess, as evidenced by her recent film The Queen of Versailles and by her various deep dives into privileged youth, cosmetic enhancement, and various sorts of striving — beauty pageants, porn stardom, and oh yes, motherhood. …
Faith-based documentary in 3D.
Celebrated British stage director Michael Grandage tries his hand at making a movie with this adaptation of A. Scott Berg’s biography of famed American literary editor Maxwell Perkins, starring the invariably faultless Colin Firth. Not surprisingly, the cast, composed of Awards-season heavyweights, are all given turns at bat. Of Perkins’s …
The latest from animator Shûkô Murase.
Agreeably profane caper comedy from Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) a man who tosses off the c-word as casually as you or I would sound asking a dinner companion to pass the salt. Matthew McConaughey stars as an American expatriate pot farmer in England, minding his …
Super-ultra-maxi-quirky comedy of dorks, kooks, freaks. Jared Hess, the director of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, out to top himself, scrapes bottom. The credits sequence of old science-fiction paperback covers creates a hospitable climate; and Jemaine Clement as the swell-headed puffy-haired author of such fiction, a relatively recognizable and realistic …
Unhappy teens struggling with issues surrounding their sexual identities form a secret support group and call it a geography club. Because sometimes, the handsome football star whose dad wants him to go to Yale doesn't want to sleep with the cheerleader.
Tchaikovsky's, too, of course, and the New York City Ballet's, and director Emile Ardolino's, in addition to the late choreographer Balanchine's. As a piece of dancing (excepting "guest star" Macaulay Culkin, who can barely walk), it is much preferable to Carroll Ballard's 1986 version with the Pacific Northwest Ballet (sets …
You do not have to be a great admirer of a film director in order to take an interest in a film about him. But a shared admiration will be a great help in getting you through those stretches of hot air, whitewash, looking the other way, putting the best …
Musical set during the American internment of Japanese people during WWII, inspired by the experience of actor George Takei.