A serious, even solemn, effort to do with the universal loss of innocence in a group of rural Southern playmates. (The precocious girl narrator sets, or matches, the tone: "When I look at my friends, I know there's goodness.") Crisply photographed; stiffly acted. Written and directed by David Gordon Green.
Cozy little movie regarding sibling rivalry in the music world. The title character is not the main character, but is instead the latter's sister (and a synonym for a state of grace, an unapproachable ideal, a pipe dream), a country/folk singer of Alison Krauss-like talent and integrity, with a devoted …
Disaster film with CGCC (Computer Generated Climate Change) as its villain.
Disaster film with CGCC (Computer Generated Climate Change) as its villain.
Ortiz started out with narcocorridos, and look at him now. Straight outta Norteno.
Corinna Belz builds upon her previous short film on the great German artist, offering a richer portrait. Yes, it is more fun than watching paint dry. You also get to watch it being applied.
You can’t keep a good Nazi down. It’s 1960, and Dr. Josef Mengele is alive and well and living in a scenic Argentine bed-and-breakfast run by a family whose individual shortcomings and/or physical frailties transform the retired war criminal into a walking Make-A-Wish Foundation. Without Doc’s help, dad’s dream of …
Trust Walter Hill, a nose-to-the-grindstone action director, to resist the lure of the Big Theme. Of course you can, if you really want to, hear some echoes of the Vietnam War (best traceable to co-scriptwriter John Milius) in the futile and costly pursuit of indigenous guerrillas. And there are some …
Gus Van Sant's self-imposed penance for the commercial indulgences of his Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester and, in between those two, the Psycho remake: a laid-back survival tale, a stripped-down Walkabout, about two hiking buddies (Matt Damon, Casey Affleck) who take a wrong turn on the Wilderness Trail and …
Carl Dreyer's final film (he lived four more years, but was unable to launch his pet project on Jesus) contains some of the most rarefied black-and-white photography -- very soft and gentle -- in the history of cinema. Or history of still photography either, for that matter. And indeed the …
Who'd have thought spending 90 minutes in a car with Selena Gomez could be this stagnant? A disembodied voice orders a former race car driver (Ethan Hawke), whose wife he holds hostage, and a banker’s daughter (Gomez) to do his nefarious bidding in this extended commercial for the Shelby Super …
Roger Donaldson's remake of the Jim Thompson pulp novel stays pretty close to the Peckinpah version, moves no closer to Thompson. (Does Walter Hill receive co-screenwriting credit for new work or for the same old yellowed 1972 script?) The movie replicates the Peckinpah even to the extent of its use …