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When a Delta Force team is ambushed in enemy territory, a rookie officer (Liam Hemsworth) refuses to abandon them. Their only hope lies with an Air Force drone pilot (Russell Crowe) as the eyes in the sky during a brutal 48-hour battle for survival. Directed by William Eubank, starring Liam …
Huang Zhen Kai suspects that he is living in a movie. He can't change anything and can only follow the script day after day, becoming a prisoner of life.
Writer-director Martin Zandlivet’s terse, tense, and terrific post-WWII film establishes two of its three strengths immediately. First, star Roland Møller as Danish sergeant Carl Rasmussen, his eyes radiating barely controlled emotion from their deep and hooded recesses as he drives his Jeep alongside a column of defeated German soldiers. Second, …
George A. Romero's zombie trilogy turns into a tetralogy. Four zombie films seem more than enough for a single filmmaking career, even one that extends almost four decades, and even with an interval of twenty years between the third and the fourth. Zombies, at least as envisioned in his Night …
Will Ferrell, a time hole, some decent prehistoric creatures, and a total lack of discipline, an utter uncertainty whether to spoof the Lost World sort of adventure story or to make dumb jokes about any damn thing. With Danny McBride and Anna Friel; directed by Brad Silberling.
Two illegitimate children head out from Greece toward Germany in search of their fictitious, mythical, symbolical father. Director Theo Angelopoulos — an heir of the neo-realists and a pathos-addict in need of continual jolts of the stuff — certainly thinks cinematically, thinks cinematographically, but he also thinks pretentiously. His beautiful …
Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is still adjusting to the new world order and its quirky coffee table-sized overlords called the Vuvv. Their flashy advanced technology initially held promise for global prosperity, but rendered most human jobs – and steady income – obsolete. When …
Three sour marriages in the Land Down Under. Director Ray Lawrence and writer Andrew Bovell (whose screenplay is adapted from his own stage play) seem to be going for something deep, something fundamental about relationships. But the degree of coincidence in the multiple path-crossings surpasses the improbable. Eye-catching work from …
A regretful gay romance between a shady middle-aged Beijing businessman and his college-age paid consort. At the end, there may well be a feeling of "So what?" And yet, in retort to that, there's something refreshing, even liberating, about the mere existence of a gay film without politics -- without …
The daughter of Sir Richard Croft inherits a sacred mission from her late father, who seems to have known when she was eight years old that she would grow up to be a militant extremist of Girl Power, and known too that she would discover the hidden clock and his …
The video-game adventuress, back in action. Here she is, punching a computer-generated shark on the snout and hitching a ride on its dorsal fin; and here, sliding in slow-motion down the face of a cliff on a rope, upside down, while picking off would-be assassins all around her with her …
Little Man against The Big-Shots. This unthrilling thriller makes an obvious play for popular sympathy, but it appears to have caught a chill from the environment of high finance, and is nothing to be snuggled up to. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Serrault, and Claude Brasseur; directed by Christian …
Sluggish elephant comedy (what would you expect?), with a couple of pleasantly giddy stretches: first, when Bill Murray tries to wing it behind the wheel of a big rig; second, when he asks for a change of clothes in a New Mexico pueblo and receives John Wayne's She Wore a …