John Ford's misty-eyed salute to the boys of West Point. Tyrone Power starts out embarrassingly too old for the lead role, and the director's Irish chauvinism often crosses the threshold of pain, but there are some graceful troop movements on the wide screen to provide temporary relief. With Maureen O'Hara, …
An amnesiac schoolteacher and single mom, filling in her memory after eight years of blank, discovers that she used to be the heroine of Point of No Return (or La Femme Nikita), a professional assassin in the employ of U.S. intelligence. Her former bosses, now in a budget crunch, hope …
Oz Perkins’ adventure in toxic family dynamics — toxic in a way that results in copious quantities of spilled blood — hits so many of the beats from Silence of the Lambs that some viewers may wonder if it’s some kind of supernaturally-skewed gloss. It’s not just the green female …
You don't have to be crazy to survive into Italian politics, but Viva La Liberta makes the case that it certainly helps to have a certifiable (but witty) identical twin on hand when things get dicey. Toni Servillo, so mordant and melancholy in last year's brilliant The Great Beauty, here …
The gimmick of this umpteenth retelling of the Jesse James story is the casting of real-life brothers in the main roles -- David, Keith, and Robert Carradine as Cole, Jim, and Bob Younger, Stacy and James Keach as Frank and Jesse James, Randy and Dennis Quaid as Clell and Ed …
Director Jonathan Levine’s mighty, even valiant, but still probably doomed struggle to make a rom-com for the post-Tinder era. So while it’s still a given that people will bang before they feel close enough for something so intimate as a date and a slow dance, there’s sort of a reason …
Concert film showcasing performances from a two-night star-studded event celebrating Willie Nelson's 90th birthday. Featuring Willie Nelson with Allison Russell, Billy Strings, Bobby Weir, Booker T. Jones, Buddy Cannon, Charley Crockett, Chris Stapleton, Daniel Lanois, Dave Matthews, Dwight Yoakam, Edie Brickell, Emmylou Harris, Gary Clark Jr, George Strait, Jack Johnson, …
Not unlike an actual Grateful Dead concert, Amir Bar-Lev’s candid doc runs just slightly over four hours. But don’t expect wall-to-wall concert footage. (If that’s your preference, Shout Factory released a splendid blu-ray edition of The Grateful Dead Movie.) Using never-before-seen footage and interviews, Bar-Lev’s warts-and-all approach fits a band …
The spread of AIDS, in fiction form. The scope of the action stretches over the entire Eighties, starting on the day when mention of a mysterious "gay cancer" turned up on page twenty of the New York Times -- so that in the early stages of the movie the characters …
The bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, 1955; or more exactly, a microscopic fragment of it: "Fifty thousand boycotted the buses in Montgomery. I knew one. Odessa Carter." For a while the movie pursues the plan of attack of another race-relations movie in another area of the globe in another era …
The story is as simple and clean as the pastel-washed visual compositions in Rémi Chayé’s animated adventure about a Russian nobleteen who sets out to restore her family’s honor by finding the ship her grandfather took on his expedition to the North Pole. And also, she hopes, her grandfather, whose …
French relationship comedy revolving around a self-important novelist and his self-loathing daughter, an overweight failed actress now in training as a classical vocalist. The film reveals itself, and its characters, gradually and organically, unfolding like life. Some of it is perhaps too painful to be funny, yet our recognition of …