Glitzy gangster film from Japan: a Yakuza boss gets stuck up, and everybody gets shot. Lots of wide-angle lenses, pointed upwards, pointed downwards, for an inside-a-tent perspective; lots of gaudy colored lights; lots of liquid shadows. With all the attention to "style," it is oftentimes hard to follow what's happening …
The truth-bending journalist, doper, drinker, gun enthusiast, and suicide (1939-2005), in words and pictures, the latter ranging from a fuzzy video of the TV game show, To Tell the Truth, to big-screen impersonations of him in Where the Buffalo Roam and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the former …
Danny, a young man with muscular dystrophy, steps out of his comfort zone and into the world of online dating after being disillusioned by failed relationships. An unexpected match with Madi, an enigmatic photographer, challenges him to be vulnerable and sparks a profound journey of self-acceptance, discovering the extraordinary beauty …
Starring Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, and others. Written and directed by Adhik Ravichandran.
Wanna make an audience cry? Throw a dog under the back wheels of a passing semi. Wanna make an audience laugh? Have a child say "fuck." Easy, ain’t it? The twist to this otherwise plotless and pointless bush-league exercise in stoner comedy is the casting of three minors (Jacob Tremblay, …
Alan Milne (a battened down Domhnall Gleeson) was a happy, witty West End playwright, until the bombardments and horror of World War I ruined his peace and drove him into the country, there to work on a book about peace. His son Christopher (Will Tilston) was a happy, clever dramatist …
Teen misfits Roma, Toto, and Drop call themselves the “Don Glees,” an informal name for their backyard adventures. One day, when the trio gets blamed for a nearby forest fire, they set off into the woods to prove their innocence. As disaster strikes their expedition, tensions flare between the friends …
A trembling, French, often smart view of first fixation. Lola Créton is charmingly vivid and vulnerable as the Parisian teen whose obsession with a smitten, more sensible guy (Sebastian Urzedowsky) makes him restless. She gets partly rehabbed by her teacher of architecture but pines for the former life plan. Romantic …
Two Manhattan sublessees meet, fight, and finally fall for one another — a supposedly heart-warming romance written in Neil Simon's glib, unctuous, hard-sell style. Simon certainly knows the rules of the Well-Made Play and that rat-a-tat rhythm of wisecracks and comebacks; he has a ready fund — as big as …
In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. Directed by Wolfgang Becker, starring Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, and Chulpan Khamatova.
Jadedly facetious film noir, featuring candied photography, pretzelled plotting, "ironic" musical selections, a cynical quipster ("I don't trust anybody over ten who listens to The Sound of Music") and a sanctimonious straight man as cop partners. All very studied and superficial. No emotional undertow. No ripple, for that matter, of …
A loser finds himself returned to his high school days, and sets out to remake his life. Subtitled.
A gruff American loner hires a gregarious Senegalese cabbie to drive him, one way, to Blowing Rock in the Blue Ridge Mountains at a future date. One way? Why? The cabbie’s curiosity, to say nothing of his humanity, gets the better of him, and an odd couple begins to be …