The internet and cell phones have come to Albania, yet that doesn’t keep a blood feud and its archaic rules from tormenting a small town. The bull-brained machismo earns female contempt (“They all act like children”), and a bright teen boy (Tristan Halilaj) desperately wants out. Director Joshua Marston, who …
Handsomely photographed but pious and simplistic story of the Cristeros, Mexican Catholics who fought back against a government crackdown in the 1920s. It’s never really clear why the bad-guy soldiers take such delight in hanging priests, torturing children, and burning crucifixes. And it’s all too clear why retired general Enrique …
A savage journey into the heart of the artist's dream to change the world by making his mark. Savage in part because of its subject: Ralph Steadman, the pen behind the twisted, spattered portraits that served to illustrate Hunter S. Thompson's immersive gonzo journalism. But the real bite comes from …
Director Tim Burton returns to a short film he made at the very beginning of his career. If the move signals a certain failure to advance creatively, it also marks a return to the realm of the heartfelt, which is where he does his best work. So yes, you'll see …
A methodical meditation on the meaning of “we,” Free Men tells the story of Algerians — both Muslim and Jewish — living in Paris during the German occupation. To escape persecution, some of those Jews are carrying forged papers declaring them to be Muslims — common heritage trumping religious difference. …
A vacuum tube that chuckles. Breast and penis and poo poo gags, a cute baby, lots of bar chatter, and insufferably glib Adam Scott as a New Yorker who has a kid outside marriage with his sex buddy Jennifer Westfeldt. She has great cheekbones, also wrote and directed, but this …
Instead of going to a hot boy’s Halloween party, Wren (Victoria Justice) is ordered to take her 8-year-old, bonbon-eating bon vivant brother, Albert (Jackson Nicoll) trick or treating. When first we meet the brawny tyke, he is parked naked on the bowl dropping a deuce while sis finishes up her …
What’s harder to find than a pack of wild unicorns? The script Nicolas Cage turned down. Cage returns as the flame-retardant figment that’s as indestructible as Daffy Duck’s beak. One good joke concerning the shelf life of a Twinkie does not a movie make, and even the least discerning Comic-Con …
Urban romantic crime comedy about a pair of Brooklyn aerosol paint pundits (rookies Tashiana Washington and Ty Hickson) who need $500 to make their dream of "bombing" the Mets' home run apple a reality. From its opening long-take robbery of a paint store, backed by King Coleman’s "Let’s Shimmy," one …
Elle Fanning comes of age in early '60s London. Alice Englert plays her super-bestie. The Cuban Missile Crisis plays the looming terror in the background.
Ashley (Abbie Cornish) blames her recent termination from a big box store on her boss favoring Mexican women. And in Ashley's eyes, the reason she lost custody of her son to social services has nothing to do with her being an unstable, self-circumventing lush. Then the idea of transporting undocumented …
A coming-of-age tale featuring a teen (Cierra Ramirez) and an absentee mom (Eva Mendes). Patricia Riggens directed; with Matthew Modine and Patricia Arquette.
It’s refreshing to see a comedy about crotchety nursing-home residents who don’t mumble with British or American accents. Unfortunately, that’s the only characteristic that distinguishes writer-director Raúl Marchand Sánchez’s Broche de Oro from its English-speaking counterparts. Think Cocoon, only this time with nothing you've dreamed of and everything you expect. …