Women's-magazine Freudian romantic drama about an icy hypertense blonde with an interesting collection of obsessions -- kleptomania, sexual disgust, a tendency to black out (or red out, actually) at the sight of anything red. Hitchcock pilots the thing with a vulgar, comfort-craving delight in Quality Living -- vast country estates, …
A profile of postwar Germany in the form of an old Joan Crawford-Barbara Stanwyck career-woman soap opera. There is an honest-to-God, blue-blooded "star" performance by Hanna Schygulla and a collection of dresses for this actress that even the estimable Edith Head would have trouble topping. But R.W. Fassbinder has here …
Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) is the type who will reflexively engage in conversation with the petitioner outside the Ralph’s supermarket, a nurturing soul who abandoned a potentially successful career in Hollywood to move East and work with her husband Charlie’s (Adam Driver) fledgling theatre company. Her star waned, he became the …
Tepid adaptation of a classic John Bingham thriller, Five Roundabouts to Heaven, moved to America, but kept in the post-WWII period, and instilled with a modern condescension to the past, along with a modern irony, drollery, jadedness. The casting and playing of Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper tip off the …
Schoolmarmish social comedy about three disparate couples -- ex-hippies, yuppies, fat cats -- united on a school-pageant planning committee. Beau Bridges and Stockard Channing do best at bringing the abstractions to life. Cybill Shepherd does bad enough by herself to undo almost everybody else. The finale at the Sixties-themed pageant, …
A gangland comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer as a Mafia widow sick of the whole environment, sick of living among "hot" furniture and appliances (many of them still in their boxes), sick of fending off the passes of Tony "the Tiger" Russo, sick of her son taking the neighborhood kids at …
A Neil Simon original (i.e., no chance to fine-tune it en route to Broadway), in his more serious vein, or anyhow more unhumorous vein, about the offs-and-ons of a thrice-married couple. Alec Baldwin, potentially the new Ray Danton, is too interested in being sexy to be also funny. And Kim …
Music’s golden couple (Jennifer Lopez and Maluma) are set to make it legal before a viewing audience of 20 million when tragedy strikes in the form of viral video evidence of the groom getting it on with the bride’s assistant. In the spirit of that nineteenth century theatrical axiom, the …
Tim Burton's sniggering hommage to grade-B science fiction. Hordes of computer-animated Little Green Men with big heads and exposed brains, reminiscent of the aliens in This Island Earth, annihilate the majority of the big-name cast (including Jack Nicholson in two roles, Glenn Close, Martin Short, Michael J. Fox, Danny DeVito, …
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet's capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing …
A woman with a secret past will venture into the wilderness she left behind to confront the most dangerous man she’s ever met: her father. Helena’s (Daisy Ridley) seemingly ordinary life hides a dark and dangerous truth: her estranged father is the infamous Marsh King (Ben Mendelsohn), the man who …
Slowly but steadily, a pair of case-hardened homicide detectives (Raúl Arévalo and Javier Gutiérrez) discover they have more in common with each other (and the serial killer they tenaciously pursue) than initially thought in this anything-but-routine cop picture. Using Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood as a touchstone, Spanish director and …
At a secluded summer camp, Morgan, a shy and introverted 12-year-old, is thrust into a living nightmare when a legendary campfire tale becomes real. As a mysterious figure begins stalking the camp, Morgan and his newfound friends must embark on a perilous journey- one that will force them to confront …