Thinking he’s a shoo-in for the second-in-command spot at a deluxe French resort, a designing lawyer (Guillaume Canet) whose ambitions far exceed his needs finds his allegiance to his biggest client and boss (Catherine Deneuve) pushed to the limit after another is hired in his place. Skillfully playing mother (Deneuve) …
With charisma to spare, the ever-appealing Donnie Yen returns in the continuing saga of martial arts grandmaster Wing Chun. Part 3 finds Chun using his formidable might to help save a local school from falling into the hands of crime lord Mike Tyson, who comes off remarkably well until called …
Writer-director Julio Hernández Cordón presents the story of gay Latino skaters who get mixed up with the mob.
Brad Bird's directorial debut gets a loving update. Two new scenes!
Woody Allen at his most exhausted and self-parodying. A philosophy professor (a begutted Joaquin Phoenix) — newly arrived for the summer session at a quaint Rhode Island college, and bored with himself, philosophy, and life in general — finds inspiration in the notion of directly, concretely making the world a …
Pimpaka Towira directs and co-writes this story of a city girl's eye-opening trip out into the countryside. In Thai with English subtitles.
Docu-trip about what is worth loving (and what isn't) in modern Italy.
The Hollywood model of sexual promiscuity meeting with horrific reprisal was first presented to me in the 1960 version of Where the Boys Are: tramps who “put out” deserve to be struck down by oncoming traffic. It figures that It Follows’ updated chastening procedure finds writer-director David Robert Mitchell cleverly …
Ixnay on any aughlays in this dilatory drama about a 17-year-old Guatemalan girl who, though spoken for through an arranged marriage, finds herself pregnant with another man’s child. First time writer-director Jayro Bustamante’s opening salvo lobs metaphoric bricks out of a tennis cannon: an unbroken long take of our virginal …
Girl meets girl with autism.
Still barred from officially making movies, the house arrest has been lifted and Jafar Panahi is now free to move about the countryside. It’s life and death in the backseat of a cab as Panahi tools around Tehran in search of flailing arms and predetermined passengers. The fares range from …
While taking a vacation from taking a vacation, the titular and incognizant party boy of James White gets a call that his co-dependent mother’s stage four cancer has spread. The only things separating this from the typical disease-of-the-week tripe beamed directly to one’s satellite dish is first-time director Josh Mond’s …
Documentarian Amy Berg (West of Memphis) trains her eye on a great voice of the '60s.
Very pretty footage of undersea life.