Feels more like ninety. Either way, it is almost as effective as summer camp for keeping the kids tied up a spell. David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, and practically everyone else in the Screen Actors Guild are in it. Michael Anderson directed.
Something of a male version of Repulsion, about a boys' Phys. Ed. teacher, played by a physically fit and emotionally taut Tab Hunter, whose skin starts to crawl whenever a member of the opposite sex gets close, hot, and familiar. The narrative runs along sadly worn paths, and, in any …
Denis Villeneuve’s latest is an artier — certainly moodier and less entertaining, thanks to Amy Adams’s deeply inward protagonist and a blue-gray palette designed to contrast the barren present with the fruitful past — version of M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs. That is, it’s an alien-landing movie in which the alien …
Briskly efficient, blithely superficial visitors-from-space thriller. The thrills, as they may rationally be called, are widely varied in kind and degree: the momentary frisson upon finding a dead ringer in Mexico of the bad guy in Los Angeles; the well-sustained bout of heebie-jeebies in a hotel room swarming with scorpions; …
Ordinarily, you might be right in thinking that a documentary about a clever forger who gets his own gallery retrospective would make for the worst sort of art-world inside baseball. (His brilliant masterstroke for avoiding prosecution: he donates all of his work instead of selling it.) But superforger Mark Landis …
There’s a feature film waiting to be made on each of Robert Cenedella’s canvases; they illustrate as big a battleground of love, hate, and action as you’ll find in any of fellow outsider Sam Fuller’s movies. As an artist in all seriousness, Cenedella likes to cyanide-coat his message with humor. …
Russell Brand plays the loveable drunk made profitably famous by Dudley Moore. Helen Mirren is his nanny, with a snarky crust that falls short of John Gielgud’s Hobson in the 1981 film. Brand lifts his voice to boyish, even girlish heights as the boozing playboy who seeks to avoid union …
More of Dudley Moore's comedy routine as The Happy Drunkard, suitable for a Hal Roach two-reeler, but now extended to the face-freezing lengths of a second feature film -- through adoption proceedings ("We take drinking problems very seriously around here"), a bout of poverty, and finally a period of indistinguishable …
Fearing a possible breach of the “no child left behind” clause, it’s up to Santa’s son, Arthur, to save the family business by delivering one last present. Other than the fact that all of the characters appear to suffer from rosacea rhinophyma, this witty, handsomely appointed 3-D animated feature is …
Who's up for an existential road trip in an old Mercedes convertible? Colin Firth turns in an understated performance as Wallace Avery, a thwarted, once-promising golfer who sets out to make a new self for himself somewhere else. (Small wonder: he lives in Florida, but it feels like someone hit …
Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg) and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. Based on a true story, the film follows Light, desperate for one last chance to win, as he convinces a …