Arthur Fleck is institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him. Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.
Arthur Fleck is institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him. Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.
If there is a meaningful difference between performing and acting, Joaquin Phoenix surely exemplifies the former here, creepily contorting as the Clown Prince of Crime in Todd Phillips’ timely, toxic take on the Making of a Murdering Madman. (Timely because it seeks to tap into festering resentment on the part …
Instead of getting love as a child, she got angry. Years later, Lindy’s (Kete Beckinsale) shrink (Stanley Tucci) diagnoses her ailment as intermittent explosive disorder, a condition that causes her to fly off the handle at even the slightest disturbance. Dating was difficult to say the least — until a …
Animator Jimmy Hayward’s live-action adaptation of a DC Comics superhero series from the Seventies comes across as an imitation spaghetti Western translated back into vernacular American, a mac-and-cheese Western, let’s call it, or a Beefaroni Western, revolving around a supernatural bounty hunter (Josh Brolin) who as a result of his …
One of the Bible's biggest stories comes to life. One night only.
Hall Bartlett's filmization of Richard Bach's best-seller is about as honest and up-front an offering as could be imagined. It is exactly what you expect: Hallmark greeting-card pictures and philosophy, put to the tunes of Neil Diamond. James Franciscus and Juliet Mills provide the simpering seagull voices.
Consumerist satire wherein the ideal family of four is really an assembled sales team — a “unit” — planted in an affluent community to arouse envy and rivalry in their neighbors. Details of the operation are sketchy at best, but it works well enough as a metaphor. The satire goes …
Celebrate Joni Mitchell's 75th along with Kris Kristofferson, Brandi Carlile, Graham Nash, Norah Jones, James Taylor, and many more.
Tony Richardson's pastel-colored retreat to the works of Henry Fielding, whose Tom Jones gave Richardson his biggest box-office windfall, boasts a few spots of knockabout comedy (the country parson sits upon a chocolate pudding, etc.). But for the most part, the sense of humor is the narrow-minded, snobbish sort that …
Brothers become buddies. Two runaways from a broken home head for asylum in Canada. The elder, Josh, has convinced the younger, Sam, that his name is an acronym for Strategically Altered Mutant, and that he's about to be sent off to a secret war in Africa as a child warrior. …
Song singer Josh Groban sings songs, including, amazingly, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."