Directorial debut of Stephen Gaghan, "Oscar-winning" screenwriter of Traffic. An unmoored, becalmed suspense film about a missing-person case on a college campus. Every now and then he does a scene, or a shot, in blue or gold (more often blue), and every now and then he jiggles the camera -- …
Guillermo Del Toro(Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, and Charlie Hunnam.
A brother and sister (Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde) are forced to adopt a strict “shoot now, ask questions later” policy after a casino robbery they masterminded goes terribly wrong. That same day, a boxer (Charlie Hunnam) freshly sprung from the clink accidentally kills his former associate. I suppose there …
Agreeably profane caper comedy from Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) a man who tosses off the c-word as casually as you or I would sound asking a dinner companion to pass the salt. Matthew McConaughey stars as an American expatriate pot farmer in England, minding his …
Guy Ritchie takes his Guy Ritchiefier to the tale of Uther Pendragon’s son and his magical sword, thus ensuring that the lad (eventually played by Charlie Hunnam) will grow up in a whorehouse where he learns to be kind to whores and mean to bullies, that he will become an …
The Lost City of Z —James Gray’s handsome adaptation of David Gann’s book lops off the subtitle — A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon — in favor of something a little more righteous (but alas, less compelling) than mere obsession: a crusade against European notions of superiority. While …
Worth seeing if for nothing more than the opening credits, unspooled in front of a Victorian toy theater of the type that Stevenson memorialized in his essay, "A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured." Each of the principal players is represented by a look-alike paper cutout, and the behind-the-scenes collaborators are …
Director Guillermo Del Toro goes for the gold, offering up a robots-punch-monsters movie tailor-made for the international market: modeled after Japanese anime, set largely in Hong Kong, featuring Chinese, Russian, and Australian heroes operating giant robots named with a German word, and offering a Brit (Idris Elba) as its emotional …
If the goal is to remake a bad movie, at least try and do it better. It’s faithful — give or take the nude mud-wrestling scene and ceaseless closing credits — but this make over of Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1973 blockbuster based on the best-selling autobiography of framed Devil’s Island …