Characterization, from the pivotal people to the peripheral, is largely limited to, or supplanted by, the declarative first-person manifesto: "I want a relationship," "I want more from you," "I need to be on my own," "I gotta get serious," "I want to have her child," "I don't believe in orgasms," …
Witless, long-winded comedy about a mother-daughter team of con artists named Conners. That's a sample. The seven-inch semi-erect penis that gets broken off a statue, twice, is another and another and another. Miles of cleavage (if that's how it's measured), though the fifty-one-year-old Sigourney Weaver can't keep pace with twenty-one …
New chapter in the Elvis myth: four days in 1972 when he was kidnapped by teenage rock-and-rollers in Ohio, was presented as a gift to one of their mothers (Tuesday Weld, who played opposite the real Presley in Wild in the Country, well cast as one of the King's loyalest …
Uncommonly funny, possibly because directed by Elaine May, this Neil Simon script has more cruel meaning than most scripts with Neil Simon's name attached. Charles Grodin (a cross between Redford and Hoffman) meets his dream girl (a Clairol golden-haired Minnesota princess, Cybill Shepherd) while on his honeymoon in Miami Beach. …
The Farrelly brothers' remake, thirty-five years after the original, serves as a handy gauge of the decline of Western civilization. Apart from their substitution of bodily-function gags for social observation and verbal wit, the well-cast and well-constructed comedy about the man who strays on his honeymoon (as directed by Elaine …
Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway, with a whisky-husky, phlegm-clogged voice, several patches of scar tissue on face and neck, and a haircut tapered like a bullet, is a decent addition to Clint Eastwood's repertory of roles: a Marine Corps lifer on the brink of mandatory retirement, with seven or eight tiers …
Bigoted white cop receives the transplanted heart of a dapper black attorney, is haunted by the dead man's ghost -- you can bet the house there'll be a play on the word "spook" -- and together they delve into a Capitol Hill cover-up. It's sort of a Thorne Smith with …
For the past several years, the “Heart Eyes Killer” has wreaked havoc on Valentine’s Day by stalking and murdering romantic couples. This Valentine’s Day, no couple is safe. Directed by Josh Ruben.
Grim morality tale with affectations of social commentary on gang culture, nihilistic philosophy, even evil itself. The screen is awash in stale grays and greasy olive tones. The film does have its visceral touches: The authentic realization of London neighborhood hellholes, the hero’s phoenix-like emergence from a cocoon of flayed …
Documentarian John Roecker's (Live Freaky Die Freaky) nine months with neo-punk rockers Green Day during the creation of their album American Idiot gets whittled down to just over 90 minutes.
Biopic (in Variety lingo) of drag-racer Shirley Muldowney, a sort of chronological quickstep through her life, thin on racetrack ambience and community, a bit thicker on the home life, generally modest in means and aims, although (through no fault of its own) a little immodest, even promiscuous, in critical reception. …
Writer-director-performer Laurie Anderson's artistic response to the death of her beloved rat terrier.
Father Flanagan is a familiar name to many Americans, often for the Oscar-winning 1938 film starring Spencer Tracy. But his story and legacy extend far beyond that—advisor to Presidents, #1 War Dad... and perhaps, saint. Filmed on location in Ireland, Germany, Austria, Japan and the United States. Narrated by Jonathan …