A Danish cancer patient (Trine Dyrholm) catches her husband diddling a co-worker two days before they’re set to leave for their daughter’s Italian wedding. In the eyes of the audience, that frees her up to undertake an affair with her kid’s future father-in-law (Pierce Brosnan). A supposedly heartwarming comedy that …
A pretty Marine (Zac Efron) returns from un-pretty service in Iraq to seek out the pretty blonde (Taylor Schilling), whose pretty photo he felt was his lucky charm in combat. In pretty Dixie, she is the widow of another Marine, with a pretty son and a still-pretty mom (Blythe Danner). …
The first 35 years of Brazil’s popular former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, like bricks piled up: poverty, saintly mother, violent father, school, factory work, the great love, the lost love, the new love, rise as a labor leader fated for greatness. Rui Ricardo Diaz is grown-up Lula, charismatic …
Or, You Can Go Home Again, But Would You Really Want To? The lion, hippo, giraffe, and zebra who escaped the Central Park Zoo and got back to Africa decide that they miss life in the Big City. They wind up joining a broke-down circus in hopes of landing a …
Director Steven Soderbergh checks off another box on his list of genre pics. This time, it's the showbiz story, featuring a minor star with bigger dreams (Channing Tatum), a young up-and-comer (Alex Pettyfer), a sleazy manager (Matthew McConaughey), the perils of the party life, and all the rest of it. …
If you hate heartwarming stories of wheelchair-bound, blocked-up, drunken, grumpy Southern writers who just need to spend some time with a single mom and her three lively children, but you love Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen, boy, are you in trouble with this one.
Late-phase Christopher Plummer plays a soggy ex-Hollywood pro who takes a young punk wannabe filmmaker under his brittle wing. Grumpy old men for the win.
Wrongly sent to prison, a cop (Sam Worthington) breaks out, then pretends to risk suicide on a skyscraper ledge as a media and police distraction so that his kid brother and the bro’s Latina hottie can complete a nearby (and highly implausible) heist. This makes him a folk hero to …
A kung-fu picture with heart — and guts. Wu-Tang Clan member RZA co-wrote, directed, and stars in the story of a simple blacksmith, biding his time in a violent village, making weapons for anyone with the money to buy them and saving up for the day when he can purchase …
Pious but not sanctimonious, Kevin Macdonald’s documentary on Jamaican-reggae-god Bob Marley hits all the high points and some low ones. It is rich in concert and interview material and maintains a sexy pulse of Caribbean affirmation, thanks to the nectar of goodwill in most of Marley’s songs. And in him. …
Happily, and despite the fact that director Paul Thomas Anderson used controversial Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as a model, The Master is more than a modernized rehash of the religious chicanery at the heart of Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Rather, it is an exploration of broken humanity in …
Haifa, 1968. Yaakov Bride (Adir Miller) escaped the Holocaust with a serpentine scar carved across the middle of his face and a desire to become invisible and assimilate. What better way is there to make a living in the era of free love than as a matchmaker trumpeting fidelity? Teenager …
A final scoop of franchise gravy ten years after the last one with good critters and effects, the gee-golly style again directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Will Smith as agent J is getting too mature for his bouncy boyishness, and Tommy Lee Jones as sullen, snarky K is looking pickled by …
An Australian politician/absentee father (Anthony LaPaglia), afraid that news of his wife’s nervous breakdown leaking out will ruin his chances for re-election, throws the missus in a “looney bin” and hires an earthy, in-the-ozone hitchhiker (Toni Colette) and her attack dog to babysit his five hypochondriacal daughters. Finally, Uncle Buck …
Adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel about Indian children switched at birth and growing up in a newly independent India.