A loser. Cheap humor, cheap sentiment, cheap filmmaking, around a $370 million jackpot, hit by a ghetto youth who doesn’t know enough to sign his ticket before the news gets out. With Bow Wow, Brandon T. Jackson, Naturi Naughton, Loretta Devine, and Ice Cube; directed by Erik White.
On occasion, a filmmaker takes great pleasure in shining a light on historical figures so overlooked that they barely cling to the margins of history. From birth to death, it takes four actresses to play the part of the first female shrink. Her brushes with greatness — women's rights activist …
Joachim Trier directs and co-writes a tale of miserable men mutely mourning Mom. Though we open on new dad Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) as he wanders a hospital, halfheartedly seeking food for his bedridden wife before scoping out some ex-sex with a gal accompanying her dying mother, this is actually the …
Documentary directed by Sacha Jenkins honoring Louis Armstrong's legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States. The film shows how Armstrong’s own life spans the shift from the Civil War to the Civil Rights …
The film explores Louis Tomlinson's journey from a member of pop singing group One Direction to a solo artist, directed by Charlie Lightening.
Austrian film director Jessica Hausner's third feature follows a group of religious believers on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the iconic small village shrine in the Pyrenees famed for its apparent miraculous cures ever since the Virgin Mary appeared to a young girl there 150 years ago. 6 million people visit …
[Trailer NSFW.] Hardcore French satire. That is, a simultaneously blistering and pitying take on Young People Today from cinematic provocateur Gaspar Noe (Enter the Void) that regularly features erect penises, sexual congress, and ejaculation. Man-behind-the-meat Murphy (Karl Glusman) is a comically self-regarding and immature American film student living in Paris …
A five-week countdown to Christmas Eve, plenty of time and the proper occasion to show how love makes the world go round, or anyhow makes Jolly Old England go round. The writing and directing debut of Richard Curtis, writer only on Four Weddings and a Funeral (he herein reminds us …
A five-week countdown to Christmas Eve, plenty of time and the proper occasion to show how love makes the world go round, or anyhow makes Jolly Old England go round. The writing and directing debut of Richard Curtis, writer only on Four Weddings and a Funeral (he herein reminds us …
Warren Beatty's remake -- nominally directed by Glenn Gordon Caron, but produced and co-written by Beatty -- of Leo McCarey's 1939 shipboard romance (remade by McCarey himself in 1957, as An Affair to Remember). In spite of the secondhandedness, the film must be acknowledged as a "personal" one for its …
Mira Ray, dealing with the loss of her fiancé, sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number, not realizing the number was reassigned to Rob Burns’ new work phone. A journalist, Rob is captivated by the honesty in the beautifully confessional texts. When he’s assigned to …
The so-young-so-in-love credits sequence, with a background saxophone to help it along, is fast left in the dust of a desultory road movie ("Just because I'm not going to marry you right now doesn't mean I don't love you"), with a hip selection of pop songs on the soundtrack (J.J. …
Political low comedy, by Lina Wertmuller, about a bumpkin-ish, anti-Fascist assassin who takes extended refuge and relaxation at a bordello in Mussolini's Italy. The dominant point of view appears to be that of a thoroughly disgusted dermatologist, drawn irresistibly to facial quirks -- freckles, moles, warts, freakish Fellini-esque makeup. The …