Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren star in this ambling comedy about dementia on board a Winnebago.
An unusually constructed reconstruction of the life of the 19th-century French murderer, Lacenaire (the actual man on whom the foppish assassin in Children of Paradise was based). The movie takes us through his final day in prison and all the way past the guillotine before cracking open his memoirs and …
If this year’s most impressive supporting cast — Nia Long, Judy Greer, Gillian Jacobs, Michael Cera, Jeff Garlin, Rhea Perlman, Megan Mullaly, Fred Melamed, Shiri Appleby, David Paymer, and Maria Gibbs — were playing slices of fruit suspended in a bowl of slowly thickening Jell-O, the result would still be …
A fast-talking hustler (Bob Hope) dreams up a scheme to open a home for old ladies and then dump ’em on the street come Christmas day. For decades, America’s most enduring comedian spent his holidays overseas selflessly entertaining our troops, only to bring filmed evidence of his munificence back to …
Female buddies from birth (or grade school at the very least), who moonlight as a once-a-week vocal trio in Atlantic City, and who are all made wackily individual without being made believable. One (Diane Keaton) maintains her father's TV memorabilia museum; another (Kathryn Grody) oversees the family taffy-making concern; the …
The Middle East conflict narrowed down to the arena of a half-century-old lemon grove that a Palestinian widow has inherited from her father and that borders the new residence of the Israeli Defense Minister. The fruit was there first, and the minister moved in next door, and the Secret Service …
An amalgam of three of Daniel Handler's children's books under the pen name of Lemony Snicket (Jiminy Cricket! what a monicker!), here impersonated in voice and in silhouette by Jude Law. The setting is an amalgam as well: Charles Addams Gothic and Edward Gorey Edwardiana infiltrated with modern conveniences such …
The Dardenne brothers of Belgium, Jean-Pierre and Luc, have become dependable providers of coarse-grained slices of lower-class life, thicker in credibility than in captivation, but still thicker than most films in both. The title of this one, which translates as The Child, would seem to refer not so much to …
Dustin Hoffman's diligent mimicry creates a superficially believable, but otherwise unlikely Lenny Bruce -- innocent, uncalculating, imperceptive. And, odd for a former dancer-choreographer, Bob Fosse, the director, robs his actors of movement and body. Instead, in arty Bergmanesque black-and-white, he headlocks them in tight closeups that bluntly underscore the crassness …
Action thriller written and directed by Lokesh Kanagara, starring Thalapathy Vijay, Sanjay Dutt, Trisha, Arjun, Priya Anand, and Mansoor Ali Khan. Released simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi languages.
A foreign film to alienate practically everyone. It concerns a French-Canadian lad of twelve who's convinced that his real father is not the sluglike drudge at the head of the household, obsessed with bowel movements and "regularity," but rather an anonymous Sicilian who had spilled his seed, or rather purposely …
Ariela (Naian González Norvind, who shares screenwriting credit with director Isaac Cherem) is a 25-year-old woman eking out a living as an artist in Mexico City. A child of divorce, she lives under her mother Estrella’s (Carolina Politi) roof. As the days pass, Ariela is feeling mounting pressure from all …