An old Aussie with cancer (Michael Caton) takes a long road trip before checking out. Directed by Jeremy Sims.
Robert Redford returns to Brubaker mode as a prison reformer, only this time it's a military prison and he himself is a prisoner, a much-decorated general, former Vietnam POW, author of the biblical Burden of Command, and a man of such loyalty and integrity that he opted not to fight …
The septuagenarian Dustin Hoffman secures a role he can really sink his teeth into, or sharpen them on: a jazz pianist manqué who makes do composing musical scores for TV commercials. (Funny-sad sight of him staring intently at the little screen to appraise his latest opus for OxiClean.) With his …
It’s a case of foreshadowing from the grave when the first line of George Michael’s titular tune provides the basic framework for an entire feature. Small screen enchantress Emilia Clarke teams with Henry Golding and Michelle Yeogh, stars of last year’s unexpected big screen sensation, Crazy Rich Asians, for romantic …
Documentary portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama. Why the question mark at the end of the title? You'll have to see the movie to find out.
Sharon Stone on death row, and evidently after graduation from the Farrah Fawcett School of Serious Acting: minimal makeup; minimal hair care; maximal Southern White Trash accent ("Ye-oo probby thank ya know everthang bout my"). The finale, futilely seeking suspense in the commonplace, takes us step by step (dead woman …
Holocaust horror stories, principally those of five Hungarians, now Americans, who survived the accelerated genocide of the final year of the war. A pedestrian documentary technique -- a standard mix of interviews, archive footage, family photos, etc. -- is given a lift by the potency of the subject, and by …
A conventional documentary (talking heads, old photos, period footage and news reports), but a near-perfect example of the form. The subject is the 1975 evacuation of Americans and their South Vietnamese compatriots from Saigon as the North Vietnamese army closed in on the city. By hook or by crook; by …
Four years up the road, and a new branch of law enforcement run out of out D.C. is about to take the training wheels off its latest enterprise: the American Peace Initiative, a signal that acts as a “synaptic blocker,” prohibiting people from intentionally performing unlawful acts. A trio of …
Chez Nous, for you monolinguals, is a French expression meaning an Australian household made up of a French husband (the German-accented Bruno Ganz), his Aussie writing wife (Lisa Harrow), the latter's would-be writing sister (Kerry Fox), presently on the rebound from an affair abroad and pregnant ("You know the arguments …
Whit Stillman, the writer and director of Metropolitan and Barcelona, the American Eric Rohmer, wry, witty, wistful, somewhat smug observer of the follies and self-deceptions of slim, attractive, educated, talkative young things in their quest for romantic fulfillment, has here outdone himself. More than that, he has outdone Eric Rohmer. …
Remember that one scene in Prometheus where the two dudes turned into space zombie things? Don't you wish there was a whole movie about that one scene? Well, too bad, you're getting one anyway. With Liev Schreiber, a fine actor who just ain't care about his cinematic legacy.
Way down south in Beunos Aires, there is a fat, balding dude who performs as Elvis. Thing is, he never really stops performing. Just watch the trailer.
A Secret Service agent, gone to pieces after losing his wife in a furious gunfight, comes out of three months in a sanatorium with shaky hands and a stupendous suntan, and back at his apartment finds an anonymous death threat written in ancient Aramaic. The story, as it unfolds from …
An historical epic whose stupefying beauty is surpassed only by its stupefying dullness. The life of Pu Yi, emperor of China at age three and an average Communist citizen at his death, affords plenty of material for a movie; and Bernardo Bertolucci's stated fascination with "the metamorphosis of a man …