Facile but enjoyable. George Clooney directed and stars as a presidential candidate, a glib liberal dream — apart from his Clintonian attraction to a naïve intern (Evan Rachel Wood), who seems to be running on the Live Bait ticket. As a silky machine of ambition, he excites other tough guys: …
Undercover agent Ho Sau has been working with Yau, a drug lord, for years, but he finds that his job and family are in trouble. Directed by Jason Kwan.
Set in the Deep South in the Deep Depression, an all-black musical from the hip-hop duo OutKast and their sometime music-video director, Bryan Barber. One of the two (André Benjamin, alias André 3000) plays the introverted son of a mortician and the spotlight-shunning pianist at a jerkwater juke joint, while …
For the first third of its running time, director Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now, Rana’s Wedding) stocks his latest (sorta’) “inspired by true events” stew with a highly affecting, lovingly detailed depiction of a young Palestinian boy wanting nothing more than to form a band in order to help pay for …
Prakash Raj directs this story of a businessman forced to spend the night with a prostitute. No, not like that, you perv. In Kannada and Telugu.
She does it all: big-deal investment planning, motherhood, husband-care, cooking, endless e-mailing, and tireless posing as chick-flick star Sarah Jessica Parker, whose charm smile could have cheered up Stalingrad in 1942. She is surrounded by prettier women, but lonely biz wiz Pierce Brosnan is drawn to go-go Parker, while her …
An American couple, on the verge of adopting a baby, goes on an Italian vacation -- an opportunity to reconnect before the new addition arrives. Everything is picture-perfect; the epitome of a European baby moon, when things begin to spiral out of control. On the way to dinner, they get …
Hot-air fairy tale, from Argentina, about the irrepressible passion of a continental man of the world for a provincial fifteen-year-old midget. It has a thesis ("Love is blind," "Love is strange," something like that) but no convincing evidence. The Fellini-esque hints of the music (and of the participation of Marcello …
Writer-director-producer-star Lake Bell follows her brainy woman-in-a-man’s world workplace comedy In A World with something at once more radical and more reactionary: a spirited defense of marriage. Of course, you can’t go defending something so common and square without bringing in handjob parlors, hippie communes, and sex addicts for color …
I is Kuki Gallmann, divorcee, single mom, car-crash survivor (and later memoirist), who gives up la dolce vita in Italy for a new life in Kenya. The filmmakers, meanwhile, were dreaming more of Out of Africa, but they can match it only in topography and wildlife. Short-winded, stunted, unshaped scenes …
There are but two people left on the planet who speak Zikril and a young linguist takes it upon himself to preserve the indigenous language.
It is practically impossible to avoid comparison with Vigo's Zero for Conduct, and this is most assuredly not to the advantage of If. The problem is that Lindsay Anderson's film sticks slightly too close to realistic, and credulous, so that the vision of the revolt of the trouble-makers in a …