After 2016 Kashmir unrest, local agent Zooni Haksar chosen for secret mission by Rajeshwari to end terrorism and conflict economy by abrogating Article 370 without bloodshed. Starring Priya Mani, Arun Govil, Vaibhav Tatwawadi, and Skand Thakur.
Behind the scenes at a V.A. hospital where a team of young, dedicated, superbly skilled doctors (Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Lea Thompson, et al.), but also swashbuckling, flirting, wisecracking, rule-breaking, speech-making doctors, are impeded but not completely prevented from practicing medicine by a budget-balancing, nickel-counting administrator and "a whole new …
A comedy of unreserved movie love, shot in Hollywood by French director Michel Hazanavicius. Big silent star George (like a merger of Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, and Warren William) falls when sound arrives. The casting of brash, funny, hugely likeable Jean Dujardin as George gives heart to the charm. Bérénice …
As a bright, depressed teen slacking through his grad year at prep school, former child star Freddie Highmore still gets closeups that follow him like fawning groupies. He and sexy Emma Roberts coyly play “just friends,” as the story dawdles. Gavin Wiesen directed this Highmore showcase, with not enough art …
Contemplative animated portrait of an Italian taxi driver who devotes a good portion of his day thinking about happiness.
We open with four-legged friend Enzo (voiced by Kevin “3-Packs-A-Day” Costner), explaining why a dog’s tongue makes it impossible for the animal to speak. And just like that, I’m psyched at the promise of a good dog movie. We know from the outset that before it ends, Enzo will make …
A nasty little triumph. It’s tempting to imagine that writer-director Riley Stearns caught a screening of the supremely feel-good The Karate Kid and thought, “Yeah, I can make the opposite of that.” Jesse Eisenberg stars as Casey Davies, a man whose slight build echoes Kid star Ralph Macchio, but who …
Documentarist Don Argott relates the story, with the aid of a roundtable of talking heads, of what happened to the Barnes Foundation, specifically its collection of post-Impressionist and early modern art, after the death of the philanthropic Philadelphia pharmaceutical king, Albert C. Barnes. The paintings, expressly intended never to be …
Lush, loud, furious, preposterous espionage thriller, something to do with a pending Chinese Trade Agreement and ongoing attempts to scuttle it. The too-much-too-soon opening is as indigestible as any recent James Bond pre-credits sequence. But Wesley Snipes, although incontestably a superspy, is at least not supercilious about it. And there …
The reunion of director Terry Zwigoff with the writer of his Ghost World, graphic novelist Daniel Clowes, seemed to bode well for his recovery from the badness of his Bad Santa. Boding even better, the subject matter -- the lowdown on high art in higher education -- must be one …
According to the press release, "An epidemiologist tried to satisfy her obsession with food when she was assigned to investigate a bird flu case." This Indonesia romance is directed by Ed Wynn... I mean Edwin.
The high concept: why not set a horror film in the world's largest mass grave — the catacombs beneath Paris, a world of cramped tunnels, unforseen pitfalls, and millions and millions of human skeletons, many of them neatly disassembled and stacked? The motivation isn't terrible, as these things go: academic …
Boastfully misnamed, but well above average: an eccentric, bordering on bizarre, romantic triangle composed of an obsessive-compulsive homophobic misogynistic racist antisemitic (misanthropic, in short, besides dog-hating) best-selling romance novelist, and a next-door homosexual painter with a push-faced little pooch and a black art dealer, and a single-mom waitress with a …