Dr. Nate Samuels (Idris Elba), guilt-stricken over his handling of his wife’s passing, escorts his two teenage daughters, the rebellious Meredith (Iyana Halley) and her younger, within an inch of rebelling sister Norah (Leah Jeffries), on an African safari in their mother’s village. Rather than mending fences, the trio and …
Author Henry James parable of paralyzing anxiety The Beast in the Jungle treats the case of a man who misses his own life in an attempt to avoid the catastrophe his is certain will befall him. Director and co-writer Bertrand Bonello has adapted the story for an age that is …
Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) is a haughty, hunky narcissist at a fancy New York school, until the campus witch (Mary-Kate Olsen) makes him ugly. He looks vandalized by a varicose-veins tagger, but with the help of a cool chick (Vanessa Hudgens) and a blind sage (Neil Patrick Harris) he learns that …
Synthetic folktale, drawn to ancient specifications: a king's son deprived of his birthright and his identity in infancy, reared in exile, coming back in adulthood to carry out his prophesied revenge. The main point of originality is the bit of witchery whereby the embryonic hero is transferred from human womb …
A bourgeois French couple (Marina Foïs and Denis Ménochet), committed to organic farming, settles uneasily among the poor Spanish farmers who've struggled for generations to earn a living from this land. They clash over whether to sell their land to foreign interests who've offered fast money to develop wind power, …
What is it that will ultimately draw the following four characters together: the misfortunate maintenance man at a men’s sauna, a crooked customs officer, the resilient boss of a glittery nightspot, and the battered B-girl she takes under her wing? Narcotics? Nope. The other drug: money — in this case, …
The cradle of humanity becomes a crucible of its opposite. Netflix's first foray into theaters makes the most of the big screen's additional square footage by placing its small subject on a very large canvas: specifically, Agu (Abraham Attah), an African boy on the cusp of adolescence, navigating his way …
Outstanding location work and a knockout performance by young newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis are almost enough to recommend this Sundance favorite. A six-year-old scrapper lives with her father (Dwight Henry) in a post-Katrina New Orleans community called the Bathtub. With dad’s health failing, the girl is forced to set out in …
After a series of strange events leads her to question her family’s isolated life on a fortified compound deep in the English wilds, 10-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of the ancient forest. But upon witnessing her father undergo a terrible …
A long time ago, there was a band that became very popular, thanks in part to their live performances. This is a found-footage compilation about that band by director Ron Howard.
The Dark Ages -- and very dark indeed, not just in illumination but in literal deed: eating without utensils, nose-blowing without hanky, a newborn babe abandoned in the snow, the hemorrhaging mother ravished in the castle dungeon, a little incest, a little patricide, a little Christian immolation. This sort of …