Going-through-the-motions filming of the Broadway hit. On past evidence, no one would imagine that director John Huston has any special aptitude for musicals. Or on present evidence either. His first-ever musical, after three dozen movies and more than twice that many years, is big, slow, and ugly. Albert Finney, doing …
Woody Allen's approximately autobiographical movie tells of the short-lived romance between a New York Jewish intellectual (Allen himself, accoutered in a thrift-shop wardrobe) and a kooky Midwestern WASP (Diane Keaton). It can usefully be thought of as a movie tailored to the critics. It is Allen's most "personal" movie (no …
Writer-director Alex Garland continues his assault on human specialness (and humanity in general), this time going so far as to loop in the self among the parts of us subject to genetic malleability. He does a neat job of it, noting that we die naturally because of a fault in …
Lynn Redgrave plays Poinsettia, a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giacomo Puccini. She moves into a Los Angeles boarding house with an energetic landlady (Margot Kidder) where she meets a Jamaican widower, Fish (James Earl Jones), who has recently been released from a …
A man who remains optimistic in life even though he is a big failure falls in love with a girl. Unfortunately, there are no good terms between the two families. Directed by Nandini Reddy, starring Santosh Soban, Malvika Nair, and Rajendra Prasad.
Altman-esque ensemble piece co-written and co-directed by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming, who, in addition, play a newly reunited Hollywood couple, a fading star (Leigh looking more like her father, Vic Morrow, with each passing year) and a sexually ambivalent British novelist and novice film director. Real-life mates Kevin …
Remember that one summer when we were all anime friends?
Writer and co-director Charlie Kaufman’s stop-motion animated film is a very fine portrait of the despair at the heart of a comfortable middle-aged white man in America circa right about now. British-born Michael Stone (voiced with great sympathy by David Thewlis) has, by most standards, made it. He lives in …
The hackers are coming! Director and co-writer Akan Satayev’s tale of an immigrant's son who starts off clicking for dollars and winds up orchestrating a stock market panic plays like a highly competent student film and looks like an expensive episode of basic cable television. Everything feels requisite, from the …
Never before has a “Shakespearean” movie been this lousy. Rafe Spall plays the bard as a bumpkin, virtually illiterate, but the dim actors think he created the great plays scripted in secret by the haughty snob Edward, 17th Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans, desperate to hold on to some dignity). …
Writer-director Sean Baker’s latest foray into the private lives of people who make their privates public opens brilliantly, as New York City stripper/escort Anora (a gung-ho, all-in Mikey Madison) grinds her way through her daily grind, making nice with a steady procession of customers, one replacing another so seamlessly that …
Walter Hill's thirteenth feature is also — oh, unhappy day! — his first sequel. A sequel, moreover, to the most negligible and not coincidentally most lucrative of his previous movies. The verbal and sometimes manual patty-cake of Nick Nolte's slobby cop and Eddie Murphy's spiffy con — Rumbles and Screechy …
A college student searches for answers and justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.
Moscow, 1983. Wheelchair-bound Guy Bennett (modelled on homosexual British defector Guy Burgess) settles in front of a tape recorder to tell his story to a reporter from the West. What can have caused him to sell out his country? This question is a heavy load to place on a portrait …
The second filmmaking venture of noted still photographer Larry Clark (the first was Kids), or in other words a second license not to hold the camera still. As before, the intended drift of the thing is to convince the comfortable, complacent moviegoer that he had no idea that reality could …