Two mismatched cousins — one a well-mannered police academy reject, the other a wild 'n crazy guy — must solve a murder in Bangkok. Cheng Sicheng directs. In Mandarin and Thai.
With war poised to crush Sri Lanka, a trio of Tamilian strangers assume the identities of a dead family and flee to France, only to discover that a different type of civil unrest awaits. The adults find work, as custodian and caretaker, respectively, in a gang-controlled housing project; the rebellious …
There is a kind of achievement in (graphically) depicting a sexual relationship between an adult man (Alexander Skarsgard) and his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter (Bel Powley) in a way that makes it feel neither predatory nor twisted, just oddly matter-of-fact. Whether it is a thing worth achieving is another question. The …
While house-sitting at the posh home of one of her clients, a yoga instructor’s (Rosemarie DeWitt) husband (co-writer Jake Johnson) unearths a gun and what appears to be a human bone buried on the property. This plot gizmo is dispensed with almost as fast as it arrives. This leaves ample …
Marital matters and family matters aboard a cruise ship.
Hard on the heels of a recent series of documentaries on noted fashionistas Halston, Diana Vreeland, Anna Wintour, and Valentino comes the least ambitious of the bunch. More time is devoted to the lives of seamstresses than the celebrated fabric fabricator. What little we do learn about Christian Dior’s schizophrenic …
While waiting to see if the French army deems him fit to return to active duty in Afghanistan, PTSD-riddled soldier Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) accepts a routine side gig guarding the wife (Diane Kruger) and son of a shady Lebanese businessman. With more psychotropic drugs in his system than you can …
Part 2 of the YA dystopian riff on Plato's Republic: the city as the soul writ large, with society segmented according to people's dominant traits. Of course, the real adventure here is in the Divergent (read: complicated) soul belonging to pixie-hero Tris (Shailene Woodley, alternatingly adorable and sullen). She's got …
Timey-wimey!
If you have to ask, chances are the answer is yes. That’s just one of the discoveries inherent in David Thorpe’s bustling documentary odyssey as he seeks to connect with — and come to terms with — the sound of his voice. It’s all about letting go of the nasality …
Documentary covering Cambodian pop from the '50s through the '70s. Some other stuff was going on in Cambodia at the same time. Sometimes, music really is dangerous.
Ferris Bueller's Day in the Hood. Charismatic youngster Shameik Moore plays Malcolm, a brilliant high school senior from Inglewood who loves '90s hip hop but sings in a punk band called Oreo because, you know, he's into white shit, too. The (totally unnecessary and redundant) narration from producer Forest Whitaker …