In rural Pennsylvania, a man's quiet life gets upended when a UFO crashes in his backyard. As he befriends the mysterious extraterrestrial, things start to get complicated when two neighbors discover it and the government quickly closes in. Directed by Marc Turtletaub, starring Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, Jade Quon, …
François Truffaut acts the dandy, trying out assorted stylish moods and images -- carefree bicycle outings in misty countryside; soaring, swooping aerial shots; antique newsreels of trench warfare; Jeanne Moreau singing a bright little ditty in a rocking chair, or leaping fully clothed into the river on a sudden whim, …
Very large performance in a very long movie, Tilda Swinton as a foul-mouthed slatternly alcoholic in a harebrained kidnap scheme. Only when the kidnapped child gets twice kidnapped (the Coens could have wrung some laughs from this) does the suspense begin to build. Too little, too late. With Aidan Gould, …
By far the most controversial aspect surrounding the Julia Child biodoc is its production company (CNN, not PBS). One guesses PBS shied away based solely on filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s assertion that ageists at the top were poised to put out to pasture the world’s most beloved and …
There's a sense of strain about elongating this wispy tale -- one of Lillian Hellman's many published memories -- to two hours' length; but in that strain, this movie shows its "heart." The gravest problems here are structural -- specifically, the flashbacks, which impart no useful information, which introduce two …
Or: "How to Have a Husband and a Lover without Having Any Responsibility in the Matter." A romantic fantasy-thriller that might have sprung from the pages of the Women's Slicks, complete with poetry readings, sudden gusts of wind, a honeymoon car crash, a brooding artist (rock singer Sting, whose experience …
As per its punchy subhead, this is “based on two true stories,” parallel stories of feminist self-determination, set half a century apart, then and now. One focuses on Julie Powell, self-made blogger, daily chronicler of a year-long project to cook her way through volume one of Mastering the Art of …
Annie (Rose Byrne) and her sycophantic boyfriend Duncan (Chris O'Dowd) come face-to-face with a reclusive rock star (Ethan Hawke) in this romcom directed by Jesse Peretz.
Federico Fellini's Rose Bowl Parade of color, costumes, and oom-pah-pah. Snail-paced and terribly wearing. An aging Giuletta Masina, with her immobile little-girl-lost expression, gets swallowed up in scene after scene.
Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, the Juliet & Romeo franchise finds our most famous Star-Crossed lovers turning the tides on the history Shakespeare based his own story on, as they reveal the truth to the very future of the Empire.Starring Rebel Wilson, Jason Isaacs, Jamie Ward, …
College student Shedeline travels to Haiti to research the life of President Moïse for a memoir. Her investigation unexpectedly leads her into a dangerous pursuit of truth, thrusting her into the heart of political chaos and the events surrounding the president's assassination.
Another excuse for Robin Williams to behave as an overgrown child: he's been trapped inside a magical game board since boyhood, until his release twenty-six years later. (A cumbersome premise that delays his arrival on screen by half an hour.) But the movie, however designed as a vehicle for Williams, …
Two Jumanjis for the price of one.