Pick your Uncle Vanya: (a) Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street; (b) Michael Blakemore's Country Life; and now (c) Anthony Hopkins's August — all within the space of a couple of years. (An authentic Russian locale is not an option. ) This present version, transplanted to Hopkins's native Wales, has …
In Russia, war movie with skinny blonde heroine and bizarre mecha elements watches YOU.
First-time writer-director Alice Winocour obviously sees room for feminist revisionism in Augustine, a fact-based period drama that pits a 19th-century French neurologist (Vincent London), skilled in the art of hypnosis, against his star patient, a 19-year-old servant girl (Soko) sentenced to life in an asylum after a dinner-disrupting seizure leaves …
This year’s entry in the dysfunctional family holiday sweepstakes is a heaping plate of fried green magnolias. The Weston clan and company gather in Tulsa to mourn the suicide of the family patriarch and wind up wishing that their beastly, cancer-riddled mother (Meryl Streep) could trade places with him. John …
Mystical magical musical about the orphaned spawn of an unmarried rock-and-roller and classical cellist, all three reunited through music, under a full moon in Central Park, in the boy's twelfth year. Too gooey to be true. And the synthesis of motley forms of music produces ear-strain on top of credulity-strain. …
An animal picture for highbrows. Robert Bresson's episodic chronicle of the martyrization of a humble donkey is a sort of Christian existentialist version of Will James's horse story, Smoky, only not so credible in its plotting. Among devout Bressonites, this is sometimes said to be one of his supreme achievements, …
A noir-ish whirlpool around an epileptic taxidermist (Ricardo Darín), dragging down the withdrawn daydreamer into an unmanageable crime of opportunity. The second film of the Argentine director Fabián Bielinsky, as much a character study as a caper film, is more measured and mature than his flashy first, Nine Queens, but …
Louis Malle's autobiographical war film, about the harboring of three incognito Jewish students in an exclusive Catholic boys' school, makes a nice companion to his Lacombe, Lucien -- nice and quiet and well-mannered, where the earlier one was more aggressive and apt to ruffle feathers. It's something of a corrective …
After 20 years in prison, a man reunites with his lost love and the truth behind his crimes is revealed. Starring Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Jimmy Shergill, Shantanu Maheshwari, and Saiee Manjrekar, and directed by Neeraj Pandey.
The true story of how a fourteen-year-old girl escaped the slaughter of the Armenian Genocide and embarked upon an odyssey that took her to the heights of Hollywood stardom.
If you love Jane Austen so much, why don't you marry her? Or at least travel to England to engage in an immersive Austen experience, in the hopes of having an Austen-like adventure? Keri Russell stars.
Contorted spoof of the early Bond films, or of previous spoofs of them, which of course were spoofs to begin with. Already the satirical aim can be seen to be shaky, and the persona of the superspy as a stereotyped Sixties "swinger" (it says so right on his license plate) …
Mike Myers's one-joke comedy, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, is stretched into a sequel. And not only has the richest source of material already been pretty well tapped out -- the anachronism of a swinging Bondian superspy in the Nineties -- it is now also pretty well abandoned, with …