A couple of infantile nitwits (the co-creators of TV's South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, a couple of infantile nitwits) invent a driveway hybrid of baseball and basketball -- but mostly basketball -- and it blossoms into a throwback professional sport, resurrecting the true "spirit of athletic competition." The …
Something went terribly wrong on military training maneuvers in the Panamanian jungle, but what? A coy and annoying mystery of conflicting flashbacks. The torrential rainfall may or may not be an homage to Rashomon, but definitely not a worthy one. With John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt, …
A retired rock-and-roller is trussed to the headboard and stabbed with an icepick in the middle of lovemaking. (Hard-bitten homicide cop: "He got off before he got offed.") All signs point to his current girlfriend, a provocatively smirking heiress who happens to have written a novel about a retired rock-and-roller …
Sharon Stone, pushing fifty, takes her femme fatale act to London, along with her sandblasted face and helium-inflated boobs. There is an exculpatory spirit of self-parody in it, but then there already was, in the 1992 predecessor. The thing about any sort of parody, self- or otherwise, is that it …
To hell and back with a teenage heroin hero: an uncomfortable contemporary transplant of the Jim Carroll autobiographical cult novel. (Can we look at shared needles in the Nineties without thoughts of AIDS?) It does not avoid the danger of so many junkie war stories, of sounding as much like …
Those wanting to bask in gore will have a long wait in this agonizingly slow to start set-’em-up-to-watch-’em-die horror fantasy. A degenerate team of five Turkish cops respond to a 911 call complaining that their neighbor in the abandoned building next door is conducting a Black Mass. Credit director/co-writer Can …
Brie Larson trades her Oscar for a sack of genetically modified rice in the romantic musical comedy set in India.
The short life and big splash of the Haitian-born artist, Warhol satellite, and drug addict Jean-Michel Basquiat (played with Sabu-like gentleness and innocence by Jeffrey Wright), as commemorated by his fellow artist, his friend, and first-time filmmaker Julian Schnabel. This voice of authority, for all its contentment with cliché, conveys …
Based on the real-life incidents of Naxals in Chattisgarh, where the Bastar rebellion broke out circa 1910 in present day Chattisgarh. Starring Adah Sharma, Indira Tiwari, Vijay Krishna, Yashpal Sharma, Raima Sen, and Shilpa Shukla.
A true Vietnam War story, safely apolitical, celebrating individual effort and lamenting any loss of life on either side. It hovers (literally at times) around Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton, who's downed on a reconnaissance flight in V.C.-occupied territory and makes his way back through the jungle under the protective eye, …
With but one The Batman (Robert Pattinson, his costume overacting) to keep tabs on dozens of criminals, the signal that brands the night sky takes on the dual-function of bat-summoner and criminal-beware alarm. As sure as the sun never shines anywhere in Gotham City — given their accumulated wisdom, the …
The DC Comics superhero, inadequately incarnated in Michael Keaton. (Batbrat, maybe. Batpunk, perhaps. Batguy, at best.) Even so, the movie is indisputably an impressive thing to look at. The production (with its feel of futurism circa the 1940s: sort of what Brazil ought to have looked like) doesn't suffocate the …