Chaplin takes two roles — a Jewish ghetto barber and a Hitler caricature — in a bravado attempt, circa 1940, to deflate Naziism with fun-making and speech-making. Even in the most famous scene (Der Fuehrer, or Der Phooey, romping in private with his world globe), there is an underlying discomfort …
POW tale with a very roomy and airy feel to it, on the wide screen and in travelogue color, and staged with a sweeping eye for geometry. (A startling contrast, for example, to Bresson's claustrophobic A Man Escaped.) It builds up considerable rooting interest in its large congregation of heroes, …
Brash title for a movie not about Muhammad Ali and not remotely great, only goodish. First-time writer and director Shana Feste has devised a sticky situation — the parents of a highway fatality open their home to the boy’s pregnant girlfriend — and she uses it to anatomize the different …
Chickie (Zac Efron) wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as a well-meaning journey quickly changes Chickie’s life and perspective. Based on the true story told in the book The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, …
Class struggle on the links, along with an England-vs.-America thing and a professional-vs.-amateur thing. The game in question is not golf in general, but specifically the eighteen-hole playoff of the 1913 U.S. Open. Shia LaBeouf has a nice quiet self-assurance as the former caddy, Francis Ouimet, who goes up against …
A love story centering on the connection between music and memory and how they transport us, sometimes literally, starring Lucy Boynton and Justin H. Min.
Directed by Venkat Prabhu. Music Composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Starring Thalapathy Vijay, Prashanth, Prabhudeva, Mohan, Jayaram, Sneha, Laila, and Ajmal Am.
Directed by Venkat Prabhu. Music Composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Starring Thalapathy Vijay, Prashanth, Prabhudeva, Mohan, Jayaram, Sneha, Laila, and Ajmal Am.
Director Michael Gracey sprinkles age-defying pixie dust all over song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman to produce a modern musical version of the PT Barnum story that transforms the Great American Flimflammer into Saint Circus, patron of the outcast and unwanted (but also profitable). It turns out that rounding up freaks and …
Director Michael Gracey sprinkles age-defying pixie dust all over song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman to produce a modern musical version of the PT Barnum story that transforms the Great American Flimflammer into Saint Circus, patron of the outcast and unwanted (but also profitable). It turns out that rounding up freaks and …
For many, the worst movie ever to take home a Best Picture Oscar, but you'll never prove it by me. The circus acts do drag on, but the sight of Jimmy Stewart as a sawbones, wrongfully accused of murder and hiding beneath clown makeup for the entire picture, is infinitely …
After the world’s collective knowledge of surfing is completely wiped after a successful vaccination scheme with an unintended consequence, the surf god, ‘Huey’ makes a last-ditch effort to save surfing. Enlisting Mick Fanning (now a yoga teacher in the Himalayas), he plans to put together a team of former surfing …
A dream of overnight success on the New York art scene, as well as of a longer road to written-in-the-stars true love, realized in the dreamiest cinematic style: the dizziest, the dopiest. There are a number of recognizable points of connection with the Dickens novel on which the movie is …
Charles Dickens' cracking yarn about an orphan who becomes a gentleman through the workings of an anonymous benefactor gets a new treatment from Mike Newell, whose remarkably varied filmography includes a Harry Potter film (The Goblet of Fire), a video-game adaptation (Prince of Persia), and a couple of famous Brit …