Incessant, insistent irreverence, taking its lead from a Terry Southern book and having to do with the contaminating value of money. It's quite a sizable dud, though snatches work well, seeing as how Peter Sellers is in it and Joseph McGrath (The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom) directed it.
A media team lands in the wrong country while pursuing a musician's story. They team up with locals to create viral content, forming bonds as a health crisis emerges in the background.
Something for the culture-vultures. Ingmar Bergman directs, for television, a Swedish opera company in a performance of the Mozart classic -- a radical change of pace for Bergman, who, for years, had banished music from his movies. To set the proper lofty tone for this gala event, Bergman assembles an …
A teen embarks on two journeys: one into a prestigious boarding school to fulfill his aspirations as a singer, and another into a parallel world filled with fantasy and adventure. Tim (Jack Wolfe) has been dreaming his whole life about attending Mozart All Boys Music School, but already his first …
A thriller, of a sort, submerged unthrillingly in a swamp of history, Faustian mythology, religion, zoology. An undercover Hungarian cop, assigned to shadow an imperilled Russian chess master, is armed with seven magic bullets from the Devil, each of them pre-programmed to hit its mark, excepting the seventh, whose target …
A magician (Simon McBurney) asks a lifelong friend and arrogant rival illusionist (Colin Firth) to help debunk a captivating young spiritualist (a regrettably miscast Emma Stone). Set in 1928, there’s bewitchment in production designer Anne Seibel’s ritzy period recreation and Darius Khondji buffed ‘Scope cinematography, but Woody Allen doesn’t have …
Well, something in the water. It glows. It eats the creme filling from Oreo cookies. It bonds with a vacationing little girl whose father neglects her. It awakens the inner child in her workaholic father. It's Orky! -- the Canadian cousin of the Loch Ness Monster, or of Willy the …
Director Steven Soderbergh checks off another box on his list of genre pics. This time, it's the showbiz story, featuring a minor star with bigger dreams (Channing Tatum), a young up-and-comer (Alex Pettyfer), a sleazy manager (Matthew McConaughey), the perils of the party life, and all the rest of it. …
“Magic” Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite (Hayek Pinault) who …
Channing Tatum gets back together with his band of beefy balletic bros for "one last fuckin' ride" in the sequel to Steven Soderbergh's surprisingly sweet stripper saga Magic Mike. There's nothing at stake — their destination is a convention, not a contest, and it's not even clear they'll get to …
If you hate heartwarming stories of wheelchair-bound, blocked-up, drunken, grumpy Southern writers who just need to spend some time with a single mom and her three lively children, but you love Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen, boy, are you in trouble with this one.
Sloppy, amusing, often engaging documentary using long-hidden color film of the since-fabled 1964 cross-country bus trip by writer Ken Kesey and his frequently buzzed (or bored) Merry Pranksters. Motormouth macho hipster Neal Cassady is often stoned and often behind the wheel. Also seen: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Jerry …
Orson Welles's second movie, taken from the Booth Tarkington novel, is stronger than his first, Citizen Kane, in most ways -- in coherence, in complexity, in common sense. Welles himself, for a change and for a relief and for a better balance, isn't on screen in this one. The story …