This is not why I go to the movies. This is why I watch TV when I’m bored and there’s nothing worth seeing at the movies. A seemingly happily married couple (aggressive Claire Danes and passive Jim Parsons) must come to grips with their young son’s gender-expansive identity. Silas Howard …
Elena (Cristine Reyes) is a stuntwoman from a family of looters. When her mother needs money to settle her medical bill, she asks her godfather for assistance. Her godfather assigns Elena to abduct Fred Tan (Empoy Marquez), the heir and grandson of one of the richest men in the Philippines, …
Edgardo Mortara was a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, when in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family by the Pope, to be raised Catholic. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against …
Spend a day, if you choose, in the company of screwing, swearing, spitting, stealing, smoking, skateboarding, stomping Manhattan teens. Still photographer Larry Clark, shooting in a haphazard cinéma-verité mode, aims to shock. But the effect is muffled, in part by unintelligibility (poor recording, poor enunciating), and in part by sheer …
Carefully drawn family portrait in a rough, grainy, indifferent image, a “nontraditional” family let’s swiftly say: two lesbian “Moms” or “Momses” with a biological son and daughter old enough to be curious as to the identity of their sperm-donor dad, who turns out to be a health-food restaurateur and organic …
Doug Block’s touching, intrusive, but not creepily voyeuristic home-movie portrait of his daughter Lucy, now grown and ready for college. She resists his obsessive filming but is also complicit and a true star. Her mom is wan, envious, often wise, and the movie has an inviting coziness laced with smarts.
Audiovisual aids to the same-named, self-mythologizing autobiography of Hollywood producer Robert Evans (Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown), a former two-bit actor (Man of a Thousand Faces, The Sun Also Rises, The Fiend Who Walked the West) and former women's sportswear manufacturer (Evan-Picone). It's something of a trade-off: you get bountiful …
Everything one could ask for from a contemporary sword and sorcery adventure and more, this live-action retelling of the Sword in the Stone legend has the feel of John Boorman’s Excalibur were it written for today’s YA market. New kid in school Alex Elliot (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) comes across a …
Another wonderful movie done with the brisk, alert, almost reportorial care of the Belgian brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Their approach is grave but not thudding. Thomas Doret is terrific as the skinny, willful lad who feels abandoned and hopes his bike will rejoin him with his father (Jérémie Renier, …
That was fast. Two years after its release and there’s already a remake of The Little Death?! This might not have been a bad idea had Kiki been an improvement on its paltry-as-is forerunner. Unlike real life, Kiki begins under the sheets and then proceeds to spend the rest of …
It is a tradition for all young witches to leave their families on the night of a full moon and fly off into the wide world to learn their craft. When that night comes for Kiki, she embarks on her new journey with her sarcastic black cat, Jiji, landing the …