Christmas, the perfect time for Zoey Deutch to introduce the family to her first serious boyfriend, James Franco. The titular question goes unanswered. Sure, Franco is sweet, cute in a goofy way, and above all, painfully honest, but aside from those amorphous traits we’re never quite sure what it is …
Writer-director Todd Solondz follows the titular animal through four stories with four different owners: a sweetly curious boy (Keaton Nigel Cooke), a compassionate young woman (Greta Gerwig), a frustrated middle-aged man (Danny De Vito), and a hardened old-timer (Ellen Burstyn). Through the pup’s mostly mute, mostly sweet presence, the boy …
What if Robinson Crusoe had a bunch of differently accented zany animal friends on his desert island, and then had to defend said island against a band of pirates and their pet cats? Wonder no more!
Shohreh Aghdashloo, Ellen Page, and Sandra Oh give voice to Ann Marie Fleming's animated tale of a young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents who travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.
Writer-director Robert Eggers’ dimly lit debut feature is a curious, often fascinating bit of cinema. A closing onscreen note informs us that the dialogue and events owe much to actual court documents, diaries, and stories of Puritan New England. (That’s not to say that any of it is true, only …
In a bit of pre-emptive metacriticism, this third entry in the “early X-Men” series that began with First Class and hit its stride with Days of Future Past sends its young, ‘80s-era mutants to the mall to see Return of the Jedi, whereupon one of them declares that third entries …
At 114 minutes, this Year only feels like a decade. It's goopy, by-the-numbers woman’s pictures like this that give melodramas a bad name. Hoping to resume her career as a writer, a defiant Karen Allen thinks the time is right for a brief separation from her overbearing husband (Michael Cristofer). …
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to the festival brochure, "In this hilarious Honduran comedy by local producer Monika Tuncbilek, a cab driver is tasked by his wife with picking up tamales for Christmas Eve. En route, he picks up a diverse array …
Shigeharu Takahashi and Shinji Ushiro direct this story of young Nate's journey back in time to recover his stolen magical watch.
Roman centurion Sean Bean goes looking for the boy Jesus, long before Roman Centurion Joseph Fiennes went looking for the risen Jesus, and almost as long before Roman centurion George Clooney stumbled upon the crucified Jesus. Cyrus Nowrasteh directs.
Fish-out-of-water relationship dramedy in which the fish is a blissfully self-centered actor (played with boyish charm by Gael García Bernal), the water he’s out of is Mexico City, and the dry land upon which he is flopping and gasping is the Iowa Writers Workshop, where his frustrated wife (Verónica Echegui) …
Makoto Shinkai wrote, directed, edited, and handled the cinematography for this ambitious romantic drama that gathers up body-swapping, time-shifts, cosmic disasters, divine intervention, country v. city, tradition v. modernity, broken families, coming of age, and the seemingly endless handleability of breasts and weaves them into one brightly colored, highly emotive …
Dad celebrates his 80th birthday by blowing out the candles and telling the family he plans to travel to Oregon so that he can kill himself. Anyone up for a road trip? Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, and Christina Applegate star in a comedy directed by Joel David Moore.