Until today, I never thought it possible to miss Nicholas Sparks. While dad is off fighting the Nazis, mom (Gyöngyvér Bognár) deposits their twin boys (the empty-faced László and András Gyémánt) with her estranged mother (Piroska Molnár), an abusive beast stationed in a granny flat directly behind a concentration camp …
Everybody loves magic! Everybody loves caper pics! And everybody, everybody loves Michael Caine.
First came Antichrist, then Melancholia, and now Lars von Trier caps his so-called ‘Trilogy of Depression’ with the funniest movie of his career. Stellan Skarsgård stars as a book-learned hermit who hits the jackpot upon discovering a battered and bloodied sex addict (Charlotte Gainsbourg) — one who is eager to …
A throwback piece of good-looking sci-fi, starting with the gorgeous and haunting image of a shattered moon, its debris stretching out into orbit. Happily, we are spared the resultant catastrophes; the emphasis here is more on Tom Cruise's self-discovery than his badassery, and hardly at all on saving the world. …
Spike Lee's remake of Chan-wook Park's celebrated tale of a man who is mysteriously imprisoned and then just as mysteriously released has plenty of spattered brain matter and sadistic gut-punches. What it lacks is the original's creepy heart. The villain of this piece needs to be Lecter-level compelling: rarely seen, …
“Why can’t you simply put your critical faculties on hold long enough to sit back and enjoy the damn movie?” The question comes up — particularly in the summer months — more times than I care to remember. Olympus Has Fallen is the answer to discerning action fan’s prayers: an …
From the trailer: "You need to steal the heart of the audience, and you cannot steal unless you have the nerves of the thief. You lack too much the confidence. For me, you are not an opera singer — not yet, and maybe, never." Oh yeah, Mr. Italian Opera Teacher …
At around the 30-minute mark, Martin Scorsese and his young daughter appear backstage after a concert at Madison Square Garden for an audience with the boy band sensation. Marty speaks of how He and Francesca exchange music and then proceeds to offer the group His personal dispensation. With a forced …
Did you find the violence in Drive just a trifle too restrained and tasteful? Then Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling would like a second chance at your sensibilities. Gosling plays a drug-smuggler whose super-nasty mom (Kristin Scott-Thomas) wants him to hunt down the person who killed his brother. In …
Less a movie than an extended, deadpan, highly stylized rant from director Jim Jarmusch. Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is a vampire. Adam listens to vinyl, collects vintage electric guitars, and makes awesome music that he doesn’t want to be recognized as his. Adam hides out on the ruined outskirts of Detroit …
A drive through the Parisian countryside with Catherine Deneuve at the wheel of director and cowriter Emmanuelle Bercot’s formless flivver. One reel of backstory, another squandered in search of a pack of smokes, and it’s time to gift La Deneuve with a solid audition reel for the American sequel to …
Sharlto Copley (District 9), so disappointing in Spike Lee's Oldboy, attempts to revive his career with this horror thriller about a man who wakes up in an open grave full of bodies and can't quite remember what happened.
A frustrated politician takes a break from politics and joins a lady filmmaker on her mission to make a documentary about orphanages.