A New England realtor ignites long-buried emotions and family secrets when she rekindles a romance with her old high school flame. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Morena Baccarin, and Rob Delaney. Directed by Maya Forbes.
Looking to avoid spoilers? S/he (either Helen Mirren or Ian McKellen) joins a senior dating service under an assumed name, hoping to track down the person who did them wrong sixty years ago. Said person is also hiding behind an alias. But how did they know to join that particular …
It's a tricky business to treat emotionally devastating subject matter — say, the orphans of genocidal violence — without stumbling into overwhelming horror or unrealistic cheer. The Good Lie very nearly walks the line in telling the story of four refugees from war-torn Sudan: Mamere (Arnold Oceng), Jeremiah (Ger Duany), …
Two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson embodies the candor and apprehension of retired teacher Nancy Stokes, and newcomer Daryl McCormack personifies the charisma and compassion of sex worker Leo Grande. As Nancy embarks on a post-marital sexual awakening and Leo draws on his skills and charm, together they find a …
British diplomatic follies in a newly independent African colony called Kinjanja. Smooth sailing along well-paved roads -- Evelyn Waugh Bouvelard, Joyce Cary Avenue -- with some lengthy dips into low comedy. Indeed the same director, Bruce Beresford, travelled much the same itinerary in Mister Johnson (and in the company of …
Clara (Isabél Zuaa) could be the only nanny with no references ever to ace a job interview, but then again, how many prospective employees are called upon to care for a pregnant and unwed somnambulist (Marjorie Estiano) who, during a midnight stroll, wrings a blood cocktail out of a live …
The Taviani brothers' homage to D.W. Griffith, in the story of two immigrant siblings who come to Hollywood to find work on the set (quite literally on the sets) of his Intolerance. The re-creation of the embryonic film industry is lovingly, and wonderingly, done, but the effect is a little …
Robin Williams as a disc jockey for Armed Forces Radio in Saigon, ca. 1965, where he fights for the Beach Boys, James Brown, Martha and the Vandellas, and against Lawrence Welk, Ray Coniff, Mantovani, and intersperses machine-gun bursts of light patter: "It's oh-six hundred. What's the 'oh' stand for? 'Oh …
The adaptation of Sue Miller's novel dawdles through some biographical background of doubtful import, and through a standard movie romance blossoming out of a Meet-Cute at the laundromat (she has removed his wet underwear from the dryer in his absence, but has left behind a pair of pink panties of …
A journalist who, after the murder of her estranged son, forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend to track down those responsible for his death. Together, they confront a world of drugs and corruption.
Reading over the titular typo that opens his girlfriend Apple’s (Becki G) wake up text, rags-to-riches TV sensation London Clash (Machine Gun Kelly) is hip to the homophone, but shaky on the dual definitions. A search engine query calls to mind a suicide note that sets in motion a premise …
Unabashed hero worship of the "crusading" CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, directed and co-written by George Clooney, who also plays Murrow's television producer, Fred Friendly. (In the lead role, David Strathairn has Murrow's somber countenance, speaks with his cadence, and goes through a full carton of his coffin nails.) Framed …