The opening text lets you know that prior to 1996, no one had died during a commercial expedition to the world's highest peak. So now you know what's coming. The first part of Baltasar Kormakur's version of the events recounted in John Krakauer's bestseller Into Thin Air serves to introduce …
The opening text lets you know that prior to 1996, no one had died during a commercial expedition to the world's highest peak. So now you know what's coming. The first part of Baltasar Kormakur's version of the events recounted in John Krakauer's bestseller Into Thin Air serves to introduce …
A hardheaded detective, determined to crack an ages-old crime involving two young women who served time for infanticide, becomes emotionally involved with the case. The mystery-movie-of-the-week premise is buoyed by the evenly detailed performances from the four female leads (Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning, and newcomer Danielle Macdonald, playing …
Wim Wenders’s latest takes us through 12 years in the life of a writer who accidentally ran over a child and the emotional cauterization of feelings the tragedy visits upon all parties involved. Wenders can photograph nothing and make it interesting, which is kind of what he does with screenwriter …
What do you get when you combine teenagers, an old insane asylum, and demon possessions? Do you really have to ask?
Exploring the emotions and confusion of people living in the fast-paced modern society. Subtitled.
A bright young man at a fancy tech company (Domhnall Gleeson) gets picked to visit the company’s founder (Oscar Isaac) in his country home, er, homey concrete fortress. There, he is introduced to Ava (Alicia Vikander), a sweet and pretty robot who might just be the world’s first Artificial Intelligence. …
The title refers to Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist famous for an experiment on obedience to authority in which participants administered electric shocks to subjects who answered questions incorrectly. (Or at least, they thought they did.) But while the film does give us plenty of Milgram's life, it's the experiment …
The one that got away. OR DID THEY?
Director Tony Chan's story of a young musician's difficult romance with his manager. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Why should parents sacrifice their art by having children when it’s just as easy to incorporate the kids into the act as involuntary performance artists? Jason Bateman stars in and directs this blackish comedy about a suffocating couple (Christoper Walken and Maryann Plunkett), whose guerilla-style exercises in video tomfoolery made …
White man + black woman + Africa = rom-com gold?
The Disney studio's grand experiment, setting cartoon sequences to a few standards of classical music, doesn't do too much for the music (it's rather like a creative writing assignment in the 6th grade: okay, class, what do you picture in your mind when you listen to this record?). At most, …
Josh Trank, who smartly darkened up the superhero genre with his small-scale angry-teen film Chronicle, goes big, dumbs down, and ultimately gets overwhelmed with this reboot about three fine actors (Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan) in search of a paycheck. Sorry, about four young people given astonishing powers …