M. Night Shyamalan's encore to The Sixth Sense, a hard act to follow. But follow it he dauntlessly does, all the way to a mandatory Surprise Ending. At first the fearsomeness of the task seems to drive him to overdirection, a big show of being busy: a woozy camera for …
The trailer for director Kerry Brent Hower's first feature promises an ultra-low-budget teen soap opera.
Angelina Jolie strikes a pose behind the camera for a vanity production that delights in torturing audiences as much as it does the film’s characters. On land, sea, and air, the charmed celeb stops at nothing when it comes to cataloging human suffering in this fact-based, CGI-encumbered account of Italian-American …
Faith-based biopic of Olympian and World War II hero, Louis Zamperini.
A young New York couple toss a coin to plan their day, the Fourth of July. One way lies domesticity, the other way danger, the first way in a green van and coordinating clothes, the second in a Yellow Cab with again clothes to match. The color-coding helps keep them …
If the Screenvision pre-show exchange of deadpan drollery between stars Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg is any indication, these two boys are god's gift to their chosen profession. Pretty cocky for what appears to be yet another run for the paycheck through the land of cookie-cutter action. Credit director Ruben …
Uncle Boonmee is dying. His relatives show up to take care of him. So do his dead wife and transmogrified son. If no one acts particularly surprised, it’s because they all share a sense of continuity — between life and death and life after death, between the human and animal …
The parents are called away on a family emergency, and they leave their sitcom brood in the care of that overgrown (and very fat) child, Uncle Buck. Should anything happen to Mom and Dad on route, a TV series looms as a grim possibility. John Candy has a funny few …
Leave Jurassic World to the kiddies and spend a few hours in the dark with these irresistible dinosaurs. A schnook promoter (Lil Rel Howery) who barely knows which end of a basketball to hold, convinces a group of over-the-hill streetballers — all played by court legends buried beneath layers of …
A single guy finds love, but learns it may cost him his relationship with his best friend's kids. Written and directed by David E. Ruiz.
Stage Russia's version of the Chekov classic.
Romantic triangle in the rarefied world of classical music. The music itself is not just for decoration. It undoubtedly corresponds to the theme of the Expression and/or Containment of Emotion. Even more, the three Ravel chamber pieces on the program go well with the configuration of a triangle: the (female) …
Following up First Blood, Ted Kotcheff convenes another post-Vietnam therapy session. This one, about a POW rescue operation in post-war Laos, addresses the specific feeling that there is "unfinished business," or, as it is put elsewhere, that the books are still "in the red" (pun intended?). Certainly the Vietnam experience …
Based on the diaries of Sophia Tolstoy, structured as a series of monologues, the film follows a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. Directed by 92-year-old documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (his first fictional film), starring Nathalie Boutefeu as the wife of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.