“Amiable” is the big aim here for director Peyton Reed. Pleasant rather than pleasurable. Amusing rather than funny. Diverting rather than delightful. Having gone full Gotterdammerung with Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel gets modest and zings to the opposite extreme for the featherweight tale of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), a man …
My first thought as the credits rolled was, “I didn’t feel a thing.” But that’s not fair. I did feel stuff. Disappointed by the clichéd staging, lazy effects, and incoherent action of the brief opening sequence (set against an admittedly dramatic nebula-filled sky). Bemused by Ant-Man’s rambling, maybe-supposed-to-be-charming introduction about …
Ant-Man, his daughter Cassie, the Wasp, and her parents are trapped in the Quantum Realm. Directed by Peyton Reed. With Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton. Scott Lang, and Hope Van Dyne.
Ant-Man, his daughter Cassie, the Wasp, and her parents are trapped in the Quantum Realm. Directed by Peyton Reed. With Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton. Scott Lang, and Hope Van Dyne.
Ant-Man, his daughter Cassie, the Wasp, and her parents are trapped in the Quantum Realm. Directed by Peyton Reed. With Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton. Scott Lang, and Hope Van Dyne.
Two old but opposite friends -- tony Toni and plain Jane -- see each other just once a year for dinner, but see the same therapist all year round. The presence of the latter allows the narrative to skip around freely and easily, and some of the girl-talk drolleries are …
Documentary sketch of Antonia Brico, who won acclaim first in the Twenties as an orchestral conductor -- in Berlin, London, New York -- and for a while was able to ride on the novelty of breaking through the sex barrier in the conducting profession; once the novelty began wearing thin, …
On the day she determines to be her last, the aged heroine, with much help from a third-person narrator (her great-granddaughter, it turns out), looks back on several decades of life in a quaint Dutch village, peopled almost exclusively by extraordinary, strong, self-sufficient women and ordinary, subnormal, and brutish, beastly, …
An almost (not quite) totally nonverbal tour of the works of the great Catalan architect, the works of some of his contemporaries and predecessors, and his general cultural surroundings: it's the sort of pictorial essay which the experimentalists, avant-gardists, montage theorists of the 1920s would have wisely kept to under …
With more than a tinge of regret besprinkling their voices, friends of the late Antonio Lopez reminisce in close-up about the promiscuous pre-AIDS 70s and how the influential fashion designer figured into the good old days before indiscriminate sex came with a death sentence attached. Lopez arrived on the scene …
Written by the selfsame Antwone Fisher, in recollection of the time in his life when he was (by this account) a bottled-up, cork-blowing sailor who, through the solicitude of a nice girl and a Navy psychiatrist ("I love you, son"), confronted and conquered his inner turmoil over his abandonment by …
The second fully computer-animated feature, and a significant advance. The illusion of three-dimensionality, with finely sculpted and shaded bodies in cavernous and engulfing space, is quite remarkable. And the nuanced facial expressions, to say nothing of the perfect synchronization of mouth movement and spoken word, suggest an evolutionary leap that …
A son makes his father's mistakes. Starring Biju Menon, Asif Ali, and Rajisha Vijayan; directed by Khalid Rahman.