Taraji P. Henson stars as sports agent who develops the mysterious ability to listen in on men's thoughts. Adam Shankman (Hairspray, Rock of Ages) directs.
Yael Hersonski’s A Film Unfinished (2010) brought to light footage that, for 50 years, was believed to have been an authentic historical record of Jewish life at the hands of the Nazis. A long-lost reel of outtakes was later unearthed, revealing retakes and cameramen staging shots. While much of what …
The title alone found me reaching for the Imodium, but what’s a critic to do after links to two preferable titles took a turn for the farblunget? At first glance, all one could think was a parabolic cross between The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (aka A Child’s Garden of …
A fluffy little “What if?” of a movie that greets the viewer with a snarky, disjointedly tone-setting false equivalence disclaimer: “What follows is a work of fiction. So is the United States political situation.” I’ll play along. What if Hillary had not shrugged off 45 as a rival unworthy of …
With daughter Bee (Emma Nelson) almost grown and husband Elgie (Billy Crudup) making a name for himself in the artistic world, it’s time for lapsed architectural whiz kid Bernadette (Cate Blanchett) to shut down the sacrificing (along with the 24 hour pharmacy inside her medicine cabinet) and put her artistic …
When was the last time you watched a celebrity documentary where not one person had anything even remotely kind to say about the subject? Prepare to be licked by documentarian Matt Tyrnauer’s soft-serve Cohn. It began at age 15, when Roy Cohn arranged his first bribe by fixing a traffic …
Birds warble in the background as career detective Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) pulls up to Gilda’s (Catrinel Marlon) house. Or do they? Broken into seven chapters — all but one named after a principal character — Corneliu Porumboiu’s icy, camp-free caper comedy prides itself on cunningly backtracking audiences through a tale …
What must it be like for a neanderthal clone like William (Will Brittain), unwilling to so much as contemplate the intricacies of abstract thinking, to live life under the critical glare of the social media spotlight? Surely the discovery of the DNA that made possible the Xeroxing of a Cro-Magnon …
A shade of wet newsprint grey smudges the facade of the still-standing South Bronx apartment. From the opposite side of the street, the only visible sign of life in the tenement is a faint glow coming from inside a center-frame window. A cut whisks us behind locked doors, where intense …
We open on a potentially life-threatening children’s amusement park overseen by a porcupine, a giant blue bear, and various forms of toothy rodentia. For ten minutes, I was along for the ride, right up until the moment little June converted the family home into a disastrous theme park ride. After …
We open on a potentially life-threatening children’s amusement park overseen by a porcupine, a giant blue bear, and various forms of toothy rodentia. For ten minutes, I was along for the ride, right up until the moment little June converted the family home into a disastrous theme park ride. After …
From the doyennes of the talking head tight-shot, American Experience, comes the theatrical release of a made-for-television documentary inspired by an Oscar-winning documentary. Phew! Shouldn’t this have gone straight from PBS to the supplementary disc of a 50th anniversary blu-ray? Frankly, no. Filmmakers Barak Goodman and Jamila Ephron are less …