Ashley (Abbie Cornish) blames her recent termination from a big box store on her boss favoring Mexican women. And in Ashley's eyes, the reason she lost custody of her son to social services has nothing to do with her being an unstable, self-circumventing lush. Then the idea of transporting undocumented …
Critic asleep, or, the longest 77 minutes I’ve spent at the movies in ages. Australia in the '70s, and the mentally absent embarrassments new-kid-in-school Greta (Bethany Whitmore) calls Mom and Dad decide to throw their daughter a disco-themed fifteenth birthday party. All goes terribly wrong, and the embarrassment incurred causes …
The child in the curtailed rape scene that opens the picture matures into the woman with the Moe Howard haircut (Claire Foy), a torture artist whose idea of revenge amounts to little more than sticking out a hand and demanding that her aggressors “Pick two!” A few moments of tense …
Kristen Wiig’s performance adds a new dimension to frazzled, but the closer the former skit-comedian inches toward big screen stardom, the more far-flung her choice of star vehicles becomes. Dumped by her boyfriend and unable to maintain a job writing descriptive blurbs for a New York magazine, Wiig feigns suicide …
An Italian tour bus driver proposes to a German stewardess before a careless collision with the empyreal French cyclist in the title finds him playing daddy to her two adorable kids, fathered by an estranged Australian ex. Its bright lighting, even lines, cheery Technicolor hues, and nauseatingly intrusive imitation-Karen Carpenter …
Don Koch (erstwhile WWE wrestler CM Punk), a professional remodeler with a checkered past, leaves his pregnant wife (Trieste Kelly Dunn) behind to spend a week performing a few sizable renovations on the haunted mansion his family will soon call home. The welcome wagon packs a bottle of bourbon, and …
A cliche-juggling feminist vampire tale by any other country of origin would still hit a dry socket. We never learn where our impoverished hero (Arash Marandi) picked up enough spare cash to acquire a cherry Ford T-Bird or the amount of vigorish that’s owed Bad City’s local pimp. Iranian-American writer-director …
Not bad, for an unnecessary remake. I’ll gladly make do with a shortening of the misogynistic revenge-rape in exchange for a more cuddly relationship between the cop (Daniel Craig) and the girl who fell face first into a tackle box (Rooney Mara). The smooth lateral pans and flat, shiny surfaces …
A funny thing happened on the way to the cemetery. Vic (Chris Galust) is as compassionate a caregiver as you’re likely to find — off hours finds him looking after his mentally eroding grandfather. But this medical transport driver’s heart of gold is frequently dented by his demanding clientele, in …
The latest (and greatest) from Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12, I Am Not a Hipster) is a moving melodrama graced by an insider sense of humor that can only come from an author who endured every square inch of pain that it took in order to survive her childhood. …
Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease and handed a five-year death sentence, then 34-year-old former New Orleans Saints defensive back Steve Gleason began a video diary for his unborn child. Not content to wallow in self pity, Gleason picks up where Jerry Lewis left off, working hard to find a cure …
Nights spent clubbing in search of indiscriminate sex partners may lead one to believe that Gloria (played with shimmering ebullience by Paulina García) is just another helpless middle-aged free spirit vigorously pursuing a life of teenage desperation. Look deeper to find a woman who spends every moment of the day …
Three features and five years after Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria cracked the international film scene, the Chilean director seems to be out of ideas, as evidenced by this American-speaking remake for gringos too lazy to grapple with subtitles. It’s set in contemporary Los Angeles, but when was the last time you …
True to “My Life on the Road,” the 2015 autobiography that director Julie Taymor uses for inspiration, a good portion of the film takes place in Greyhounds and train cars, their wheels a rolling throughline linking past with present. It’s not uncommon to find two performers cast as the same …