After she returns home from a grueling round of facial reconstruction surgery, Mommy’s paranoid twin boys begin to question whether she’s the genuine article. Filmmakers Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz must have stolen a look at the box cover to Eyes Without A Face because all they learned from Georges …
The title tells it all. The film involves a group of 30-something, mid-level professionals who have been friends since high school and throw epic parties every summer at a beach house in the Hamptons. When the estate goes up for sale, the group is determined to throw the wildest party …
17-year-old Sam (Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad, Chris (Le Gros) and his oldest friend, Matt (McCarthy). As the two men quickly settle into a gently quarrelsome brotherly dynamic, airing long-held grievances, Sam, wise beyond her years, attempts to mediate. But when lines …
Daniel (Morgan Freeman) is brought together with Allison (Florence Pugh), the once-thriving young woman with a bright future who was involved in an unimaginable tragedy that took his daughter’s life. As grief-stricken Daniel navigates raising his teenage granddaughter and Allison seeks redemption, they discover that friendship, forgiveness, and hope can …
Andy Goodrich's (Michael Keaton) life is upended when his wife and mother of their nine-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. Thrust into the world of modern parenthood, Goodrich leans on his daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Mila Kunis), as …
Espionage epic, reasonably described by one blurbist as "The Godfather of CIA movies," but only if you are satisfied to retain all the pretentiousness of The Godfather, right down to the oppressive underillumination, and do without any of the enlivening pyrotechnics. (Despite those subtractions, the movie still comes to within …
Write hard, direct hard, act hard. Laugh light, if at all. Neal Brennan’s high-pressure capitalist satire, on a travelling team of mercenary car salesmen summoned to Temecula for a Fourth-of-July blowout, takes continual leave of sense and senses in pursuit of jokes. With Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, Kathryn …
Little froggy-eyed Elijah Wood has just lost his mother, and to make matters worse has to go stay with relatives during his father's two-week business trip. What's worse about that is that raspberry-lipped little Macaulay Culkin (Home Alone, Home Alone 2), in the part of Wood's cousin, is attempting to …
Very, very, very long Sergio Leone spaghetti Western -- long on carnage and bone-crunches, long on plot twists and yellowy scenery, long on inarticulate grunts and hoarse dubbing. Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach loosely personify the respective qualities listed in the title.
Loose remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur, loose as ashes (to steal a line from Bing Crosby). The hero looks to be the brainchild of an intellectually precocious adolescent, one who has immersed himself in Raymond Chandler -- although these days it might be Robert Parker or Lawrence Block …
More than a soundtrack in search of a movie, though Daniel Lopatin’s propulsive electronic score displays an excellence and precision that most decidedly does not come through in cinematographer Sean Price Williams’ beyond-extensive use of closeups. Star Robert Pattinson can act, and he’s not hard to look at. But to …
There is a story, oft told, behind the story on screen. On-the-make actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, best friends since grade school, wrote the script for themselves to act in. There's more to it than that, but it doesn't get more interesting, and nor does the story on screen, …
Unsavory documentary by Australian filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke (on the rebound, we are told with doubtful relevancy, from a broken marriage) about a Thai prostitute called Aoi (trans., Sugar Cane), who is promised a rice farm in payment. The core of the movie, though spread throughout, consists of soul-baring, self-pitying interviews …
A loose retelling of Billy Budd, set among a troop of Foreign Legionnaires stationed in the Gulf of Djibouti. Beneath a scorching sun, shirtless young men exercise to the strains of Benjamin Britten, under the watchful eye of Denis Lavant’s stone-faced officer Galoup, their obsessively ritualized movements simmering with barely …