In an unprecedented move, documentarian Dror Moreh assembled the six former heads of Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, to speak publicly of their work for the first time. It’s surprising to find out just how critical they all are of the Israeli government. Equally astonishing is the lackluster treatment Moreh …
A World War II epic from the losers' perspective.
Unhappy teens struggling with issues surrounding their sexual identities form a secret support group and call it a geography club. Because sometimes, the handsome football star whose dad wants him to go to Yale doesn't want to sleep with the cheerleader.
You can’t keep a good Nazi down. It’s 1960, and Dr. Josef Mengele is alive and well and living in a scenic Argentine bed-and-breakfast run by a family whose individual shortcomings and/or physical frailties transform the retired war criminal into a walking Make-A-Wish Foundation. Without Doc’s help, dad’s dream of …
Who'd have thought spending 90 minutes in a car with Selena Gomez could be this stagnant? A disembodied voice orders a former race car driver (Ethan Hawke), whose wife he holds hostage, and a banker’s daughter (Gomez) to do his nefarious bidding in this extended commercial for the Shelby Super …
What if the people spoofing Paranormal Activity were not African-American, but rather, Hispanic? And what if that spoof was even sexier? Well, then.
They probably should have titled it Tatum Triumphant, but oh well.
Having recanted her polished Disney decency with two exercises in high-concept sleaze (Sucker Punch, Spring Breakers), Vanessa Hudgens goes for earnest drama (complete with frumpy-grungy appearance) as Apple, the abused daughter of a meth whore (a frightening Rosario Dawson). In rapid succession, Apple escapes her home, meets her (rich, conventional) …
Vice Ganda plays quads — a straight boy, a straight girl, a gay boy, and a gay girl — who get separated at birth: the straights with the rich dad, the gays with the poor mom. Eventually, they find each other at the mall. Hijinx ensue.
A tale of love! Love so strong it leads a city boy into the country!
Kristen Wiig’s performance adds a new dimension to frazzled, but the closer the former skit-comedian inches toward big screen stardom, the more far-flung her choice of star vehicles becomes. Dumped by her boyfriend and unable to maintain a job writing descriptive blurbs for a New York magazine, Wiig feigns suicide …
An Italian tour bus driver proposes to a German stewardess before a careless collision with the empyreal French cyclist in the title finds him playing daddy to her two adorable kids, fathered by an estranged Australian ex. Its bright lighting, even lines, cheery Technicolor hues, and nauseatingly intrusive imitation-Karen Carpenter …
Nights spent clubbing in search of indiscriminate sex partners may lead one to believe that Gloria (played with shimmering ebullience by Paulina García) is just another helpless middle-aged free spirit vigorously pursuing a life of teenage desperation. Look deeper to find a woman who spends every moment of the day …
Director John Sayles (remember Lone Star?) understands that characters are crucial. He has given us a couple of good ones in Bernice and Fontayne (Lisa Gay Hamilton and Yolanda Ross, both relishing the opportunity), former high school besties reunited in middle age when Bernice is assigned as Fontayne's parole officer …