Edward Zwick, one-time director of Glory, has here reassumed some epic aspirations, or epic postures and gestures at any rate, in the matter of an all-male family of four on a Montana horse ranch reminiscent of Bonanza's Ponderosa (Eng. trans., ponderous; labored; lumpish). The unspooling storyline, however, never generates the …
The fate of the world plays out at a roadside diner in Paradise Falls at the edge of the Mojave Desert: the Archangel Michael and the Archangel Gabriel battle over the imminent illegitimate baby of a dirty-blond hash-slinger. Bombastic horror film with idiotic dialogue: “Either your child lives or mankind …
There’s some powerful stuff about modern soldiering and military culture in Greg Barker’s brief documentary on the first American soldiers to enter Afghanistan after 9/11. As a reporter, Barker is the right man for the job: he manages the special kind of rapport you’d need to get an Army Ranger …
Director Chris McCay’s whirlwind romp through The Dark Knight’s universe keeps things kid-friendly by operating from the notion that Batman is a seven-year-old boy, his development arrested by the traumatic experience of losing his parents at a tender age. He doesn’t want to share: he regards his greatest enemy as …
LEGO as cinema! LEGO as mathematical science! LEGO as therapy! LEGO as art! LEGO as theme park crammed with craggy scale replicas! LEGO as Holocaust remembrance!? (What do you expect from a Weinstein release?) LEGO as official Star Wars merchandiser! Leg’go the kiddie propaganda and there might have been something …
LEGO, which has insinuated itself into movie franchise after movie franchise via the video game backdoor, now makes its move to subsume them all into a big-screen pop-culture juggernaut. They even took over the Bible! Resistance is futile.
The sequel begins right where the first part left off: with Dad’s casual bombshell that if his son can play in the basement LEGO paradise, then so can the son’s younger sister. Cue the arrival of the adorable Duplo destructors, and hello, new central conflict! You might even say that …
The sequel begins right where the first part left off: with Dad’s casual bombshell that if his son can play in the basement LEGO paradise, then so can the son’s younger sister. Cue the arrival of the adorable Duplo destructors, and hello, new central conflict! You might even say that …
The sequel begins right where the first part left off: with Dad’s casual bombshell that if his son can play in the basement LEGO paradise, then so can the son’s younger sister. Cue the arrival of the adorable Duplo destructors, and hello, new central conflict! You might even say that …
The popular children’s television series receives the Lego-brand feature film treatment, which means lots of rapid-fire gags, a cheerful affirmation of the value of teamwork, and Daddy issues. This time, they’re between the evil Lord Garmadon, who is forever attempting to conquer the city of Ninjago, and his son Lloyd, …
Total French charm in the port city from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki. A hard-drinking old noir guy (splendid André Wilms) helps a fugitive African kid (stoical Blondin Miguel) escape the authorities, aided by his social-solidarity neighbors in a retrograde zone of Le Havre. Vapors of past French masters (Clair, Pagnol, …
At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts in the face of sanctions against Iran. While her brothers are struggling to make ends meet, Leila makes a plan. …