A vacationing couple in Switzerland is whisked back home, swept into a political assassination scheme and a search for their kidnapped child — a characteristic Hitchcock notion about the little surprises that can quicken the heartbeat of middle-class normalcy. So …
by Duncan ShepherdLuc Besson, of La Femme Nikita and The Big Blue, finally comes to America in body besides spirit: to New York, in specific, for an action yarn, or yawn, about a milk-drinking, plant-nurturing, granny-sunglasses-wearing existential French hitman who initiates a …
by Duncan ShepherdDoug Liman’s small-scale war movie pits two American soldiers (John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the latter looking like Jake Gyllenhaal and talking like Casey Affleck and acquitting himself admirably) against an Iraqi sniper in the pipelined, post-war wasteland. The sniper …
Charlie Heller is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the…
A widowed mother on her first date in years arrives at an upscale res…
A surveillance mission goes wrong for a platoon of American Navy SEAL…
A father tells his son the greatest story ever told, and what begins …
Four misfits — Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Han…
A story of love and friendship, about a writer who adopts a Great Dan…
Sari, a woman who loses every man she loves, and Jolo, a struggling l…
Inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to …
24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg (Hechinger) arrives at Camp…
The magical music adventure journeys back to the timeless story with …
It’s Holy Week, the most impactful and famous week in human history. …
It’s Holy Week, the most impactful and famous week in human history. …
Substantive biopic, or little silhouette of a docudrama sporting performances by a Queen tribute band? As frontman Freddie Mercury, Rami Malek’s ability to outdistance the Nutty Professor bucks and Planet of the Apes shag is a testament to his charisma. …
by Scott MarksDirector Michael Mann situates Tom Cruise under a silver-fox hair dye in the back seat of a taxi cab crowned by an ad for Bacardi Silver. That matching-color fashion statement says a lot about this sleek, cool, preening, glamorous thriller …
by Duncan ShepherdFaithful re-enactment of a 1993 incident in Somalia: the eighteen-hour urban firefight that ensues when an intended neat, clean, in-and-out raid into the heart of Mogadishu (colloquially called "the Mogue," or just "Mogue") goes bad. It delivers a mixed experience, …
by Duncan Shepherd