Here is your chance to see a penguin pee upside down, to hear Brad Pitt and Matt Damon as brave krill eager to escape the swarm (“Goodbye, krill world”), and to hear a kid penguin sing a Puccini aria with lyrics such as, “Life’s just a big pile of crazy.” …
Wintry Norwegian hills sprinkled with quaint ironies, as director Anne Sewitsky tricks up this vaguely comical tale of marital discord. An urban couple moves to the sticks, seemingly for robust choir singing. A rustic wife frets about her moose-hunting husband, secretly gay. An adopted Ethiopian kid is mute, but a …
A “What does it all mean?” meditation on life and love centered on an assortment of 20-something, somehow professionals adrift in a sea of somewhat maturity. The principal character is a fashionably scraggly freelance writer who taps into his dormant Good Samaritan upon taking in an elementary-age stowaway he finds …
The epic chronicle ends, after eight films that filled a decade. The over $7 billion in movie lucre it will finally receive is far less important than the many millions of fans who have loved the storytelling abundance, the beautiful splurges of craft, the three growing heroes (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma …
A tricky and stylishly crafted movie from Montreal’s Xavier Dolan about a love triangle of which one side (surfer-ish blond hunk Niels Schneider) is the most desired but least loving. Drooling for him are a gay hipster (Dolan) and his sardonic, straight friend (Monia Chokri) in a splatter pattern of …
The first 15 minutes are a rough patch, and the withered image doesn’t help — everything looks dusty and anemic. Once we’re acclimated, we realize how appropriate the look is, how it emphasizes the dreary circumstances of the players. There’s a grade-school intellectual with ambitions of making a film about …
Danfung Dennis’s startling documentary follows U.S. Marine Sgt. Nathan Harris through his recovery after being shot in the hip while serving his third tour in Afghanistan. We are privy to the actual footage from the battlefield leading up to Harris’s injury. The camera is remarkably steady, given the roughness of …
The young white ladies of Jackson, Mississippi (circa 1960) install additional bathrooms to avoid sharing a seat with the colored waitstaff. As a result, crusading young writer Emma Stone pens a tell-all, blasting the lid off bigotry. Working from a best-selling novel, writer/director Tate Taylor reduces all blacks to angels, …
Keanu Reeves is like a streamlined Gregory Peck from a quiet planet where everyone has slow thoughts, and his performance of Lopakhin in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard has the pathos of a soulful coma. Back in Buffalo to rob a bank next to the theater, Reeves is swept by love …
The film is an opportunity to see familiar faces in unfamiliar roles, most notably Natalie Portman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The story centers around TJ (played with vulnerable conviction by Devin Brochu), a diminutive high schooler struggling with the death of his mother. His grief management takes a drastic turn with …
Tariq Nasheed's documentary explores the reasons the contributions of African and aboriginal people have been left out of the pages of history.
Corinne (Vera Farmiga) desires total submission to Jesus Christ. She also wants loving support, adult discussion, and a vent for her talent as a thoughtful speaker. As director, Farmiga never caricatures fundamentalism and never pegs the main males as dim fools, just patriarchal and defensive. Corinne seeing bestial spirits feels …
The teen Red Riding Hood and the Wolf must join forces to find the missing Hansel and Gretel, in a PG-rated animation from the Weinstein Co. Voices include Glenn Close, Joan Cusack, Martin Short, Hayden Panettiere, Andy Dick, Cheech and Chong.