Studio Ghibli anime master Hayao Miyazaki's story of a girl's adventures in figuring out how to be a good witch.
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 …
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 …
Takeshi Kitano forsakes the crime genre for a deadpan road comedy about a mere reprobate (idler, gambler, brawler) who guides a small boy on a summer-vacation search for his long-lost mother. In his on-screen persona, Beat Takeshi, he is still a bit of a roughie if not a full-fledged toughie …
After a sizable step forward in his third film, Jackie Brown, and after a lengthy interval of six years since then, Quentin Tarantino takes several steps backwards in his fourth. An odd blend of pretension and triviality, it posits a comic-book world in which there can exist a Deadly Viper …
The second half offers no convincing evidence that Quentin Tarantino needed two installments to tell his scrambled tale. It convinces us instead that in its entirety the film is even worse than initially believed. For much of the time, it looks more like sweepings from the cutting-room floor than like …
After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
Sam Peckinpah, who knows much about real-life violence and is glad to share his findings, begins this movie with a worthwhile lesson on the maiming effects of bullets -- the weeks in hospital, the months in therapy. But he permits James Caan to make a near-complete recovery and to compensate …
What a waste. Director Gary McKendry pulls together action god Jason Statham, genuine star Clive Owen, and a surprisingly subdued Robert DeNiro in an international espionage thriller based on a true story, and then turns around and makes this shoddy, shaky, seemingly endless parade of cliches, incoherent action, and generally …
Second screen version (after Burt Kennedy’s grindhouse one in 1976) of Jim Thompson’s kinky crime novel, kept in the original Fifties period, with the choirboyish Casey Affleck, and his quaky, croaky, pubescent voice, in the part of the psycho deputy sheriff of a West Texas small town, outwardly much less …
After a contract killing goes wrong, a hitman hired on spec takes a 14-year-old virgin as his “retainer.” This is director William Friedkin’s second film with playwright Tracy Letts; their first pairing, Bug, turned out to be an effective gut-wrencher that never once felt like canned-theatre. You’ll need a Rival® …