After the extravagant acclaim for Leaving Las Vegas, Mike Figgis appeared to take leave of his senses with One Night Stand, and he appears to have still not found his way back to them, with this jumbled think-piece in which a black Adam and blond Eve roam around a butterscotch …
A contemporary but apparently timeless tale of star-crossed lesbians at a posh boarding school. It adopts the point of view, or anyway adopts the first-person narration, of a mousy newcomer called Mouse ("I felt like a gray mouse heading right for the mouth of a cat"), who learns about life, …
A Problem Picture about problem teenagers at an exclusive "behavioral modification" facility. Adam Horovitz, one of the musical Beastie Boys, looks well and moves well as the principal problem. Smirks well, that is, and swaggers well, something like a young Richard Gere -- young enough, in fact, that all of …
If we must have a vampire youth movie (something of a contradiction in terms, isn't it?), then a leather-jacketed motorcycle gang, with a leader fashioned after Billy Idol, seems an all-right idea for the vampires. And a couple of earnest comic-book buffs seem an all-right idea for the vampire hunters. …
In his directorial debut, Andy Garcia conjures the city of his birth, the city of his infancy, Havana in transition between Batista and Castro. A labor of love, presumably, but laborious positively, a limp epic of flat, underlit visuals and sententious, pretentious dialogue. "Havana is no longer a capital city, …
With but 2 features to their credit (am I the only one who’s never heard of The Last Romantic or Band of Robbers) the Nee Brothers, Aaron and Adam, convinced four of Hollywood’s biggest names (Bullock, Tatum, Pitt, and Harry Potter) to star in what is best described as Fabio …
The Lost City of Z —James Gray’s handsome adaptation of David Gann’s book lops off the subtitle — A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon — in favor of something a little more righteous (but alas, less compelling) than mere obsession: a crusade against European notions of superiority. While …
A woman’s picture that doesn’t adhere to a “chick flick” formula or detail a reckoning with one’s past that ends inevitably in terminal disease. It began for Leda (Olivia Coleman and, in flashback, Jessie Buckley) as a quiet sabbatical at a picturesque seaport in southern Italy. The mincing English professor …
Identity quest of a fatherless young Argentinian Jew who helps out in his mother's lingerie shop in a Buenos Aires mall. The quest itself isn't terrifically interesting, but the style -- shaky, shallow telephoto shots, short zooms -- is actively irritating. With Daniel Hendler, Adriana Aizemberg, Silvina Bosco, Sergio Boris; …
Seven stories converge in this comedy, drama set in and around the lost and found office of an Irish train station.
One had hoped that the talented Alexandra Daddario would be remembered as something more than the comely actress whose topless scene in True Detective crowned her Queen of GIFs. The talented Alexandra Daddario has tried her hand at roles in genre pictures — the replacement squeeze in Joe Dante’s singular …
The excitement of David Lynch's return to the big screen, ending an absence of five years, starts to taper off steadily after the breathless credits sequence of automobile headlights gobbling up an infinite dotted yellow line underneath the retro pulp-paperback lettering. It -- the excitement, such as it is -- …
Get lost for 2 ½ hours in this lively saga of a journalist who snubs his profession in favor of nobility only to find journalism the most noble calling of all. Lucien (Benjamin Voisin), a young printer’s apprentice with ink in his veins and delusions of propriety on the brain, …
Something seems to be missing here, as compared with the earlier Albert Brooks movies, Real Life and Modern Romance. Not laughs, surely; at least not in significant numbers. And the basic idea -- of a young Establishment couple who, with the dim pre-Established memory of Easy Rider as inspiration, renounce …
Action comedy sequel to Lost in Thailand. Subtitled.