The same line, that would be, as the previous year's Ray, a musical biopic on a recently fallen giant of popular song, C&W; instead of R&B;, Johnny Cash instead of Ray Charles, two years dead instead of mere months, but the same backstage tale of early poverty and tragedy, meteoric …
Teen weepie. All you really need to know is that it's based on a novel by the author of Message in a Bottle, Nicholas Sparks: your guarantee of unintended mirth. Pop singer Mandy Moore (singing two songs in that voguishly warped and wobbly vocal style that sounds as though the …
Hong Sangsoo's latest exploration of the complexities of relationships, growing older, and artistic pursuit concerns a successful middle-aged filmmaker Byungsoo (Kwon Haehyo), who drops by to visit and introduce his daughter to an old friend, Mrs. Kim (Lee Hyeyoung), the owner of a charming apartment building that houses a restaurant …
Meditative documentary about a community of Zen Buddhist monks and nuns who have dedicated their lives to mastering the art of mindfulness with their world-famous teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. Marc Francis and Max Pugh direct.
Doug Liman’s small-scale war movie pits two American soldiers (John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the latter looking like Jake Gyllenhaal and talking like Casey Affleck and acquitting himself admirably) against an Iraqi sniper in the pipelined, post-war wasteland. The sniper has the clear advantage: they don’t know where he is, …
Nick Park's claymation creations -- the crackpot inventor who's "crackers about cheese" and his silent, watchful, wary, undyingly loyal yet healthily skeptical pet pooch -- take their first feature-length excursion, after a nine-year absence from the screen. The just shy of an hour-and-a-half running time is as long as their …
Relentlessly sentimental science fiction about a cute anthropomorphized “male” robot — a rattletrap contraption of binoculars atop tank treads — programmed to pick up garbage on an evacuated Earth in the 28th Century (his name is an acronym of Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-Class), all alone on the planet but …
A somewhat livelier movie about the stock market than "Rollover" -- praise so faint that it would do better just to lie down with a cool washcloth pressed to its forehead. And Michael Douglas, while no less of a Leftish actor happy to cut his own character's throat, is a …
Twenty-three years after he first visited the scene, Stone weighs in (thud!) on recent developments in the stock market, another chapter in his career of heavy breathing over epochal events. Gordon Gekko, his most memorable fictional creation (not to compete with Nixon, W., or Alexander the Great), out of prison …
Telugu film featuring Megastar Chiranjeevi, Ravi Teja, Shruti Haasan and Catherine Tresa. Music composed by Rockstar Devi Sri Prasad. Story, dialogue and direction by KS Ravindra.
How the heck did someone besides Disney figure out how to make a movie about Walt Disney? Directed by Khoa Le.
Anomalous animated film, autobiographical in nature. The premise has Israeli documentarist Ari Folman delving into his repressed memories of the Lebanon War twenty years earlier, in particular his role as a foot soldier in a massacre at a Palestinian refugee camp. Drawn in a “realistic” comic-strip style, Judge Parker as …
Tall tale, told flat, about a cardshark and a barely pubescent Grand Ole Opry aspirant following a crazy old prospector's treasure map to a gold mine in the Grand Canyon . It takes little effort to imagine how this, with slight retailoring, could be made over into a Disney film. …
Looking back on the heady teenage days of 1963 from the sophisticated vantage point of 1979. Directed by Philip Kaufman.