As a way of atoning for his string of Sophia Loren pastries, De Sica here took up the hefty topic of isolationist Jews in Mussolini's Italy. Originally it was to have been directed by Valerio Zurlini, and it could well have used some of his delicacy. The script has a …
Francis Coppola's heart-on-sleeve Vietnam movie, set in the late Sixties and among the Old Guard at Fort Myer: ceremonial "toy soldiers" charged with burying the dead at Arlington National Cemetery. Whether the maker of Apocalypse Now was motivated here by genuine contriteness, hypocritical and trendy conformism, broad-minded desire for a …
Small-screen actor Zach Braff, who also wrote and directed, as the most impassive sadsack this side of Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate: impassive amid the surrounding panic of a plane-crash dream scene; impassive in the sanatorium ambience of his bedroom, lying motionless on his back and listening to the news …
Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt), the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson) – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered …
Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt), the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson) – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered …
Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt), the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson) – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered …
Once upon a time, not everybody carried a camera in their pockets, and perhaps as a result, people paid more attention to the work of those who gave their lives to it. There’s a lot of love in Sasha Waters Freyer’s documentary on the seminal street photographer: love for Winogrand …
Little film about little people in a little town. More exactly, a hash-slinging single mother with two teenage daughters in a trailer park in Laramie, New Mexico. You know it's serious because of the in-jokes: writer-director Allison Anders, minus one "l," is the signee of a stern note from the …
Damsel-in-distress theatrical melodrama whose fundamental premise has added a word to the English language, a verb transformed from a noun: "to gaslight," meaning something like "to drive crazy; to attempt to induce madness in another; to cause a person to doubt his or her sanity." Fussy, fusty MGM production; dated …
Lesbian gas-station attendants hit the road, with a body in the trunk, after one accidentally kills the other's mother. Meager budget and narrative, but resourceful direction within those limits by the first-time Italian filmmaker, Monica Lisa Stambrini. With Maya Sansa and Regina Orioli.
With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from small-town Oregon decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission is to make it to a place they’ve never been — the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away.
An uprooted tree in a suburban backyard opens the portals for "the Old Gods" — those pre-Biblical demons who've been lying low and awaiting their chance to establish Hell-on-Earth. And on a weekend when the grownups have gone out of town, too! The liner notes of a heavy-metal rock album …
In an unprecedented move, documentarian Dror Moreh assembled the six former heads of Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, to speak publicly of their work for the first time. It’s surprising to find out just how critical they all are of the Israeli government. Equally astonishing is the lackluster treatment Moreh …