Jonathan Demme returns to the concert documentary, this time capturing a late-career solo show from the man who famously sang, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." (Appropriately, it's a bookend playlist, with most of the songs hailing from circa 1970 or 2010.) Young himself may have faded …
A 30-something couple tries for romantic revival by squatting in the apartment they occupied when they were first dating. The movie’s most immediate problems are of a technical nature: inconsistent volume, poor focus, and bad editing, to name a few. The depiction of the couple’s conflict is superficial and repetitive. …
Flick follows Travis Pastrana and the Nitro Circus (including Jolene Van Vugt and Tommy Passemante) on stunt-filled tour.
...in L.A. - get it? New York artist-girl (a highly sexualized Olivia Thirlby) camps out in the Silver Lake home of a Hollywood sound engineer, his wife, and their kids (one shared, one step). Almost everyone proceeds to get the itch: hubby for artist, wife's therapy patient for wife, daughter …
A fall below past form for expat Vietnamese visionary Tran Anh Hùng (The Scent of Green Papaya). His visual elegance and delight in deep moods are tangled in the murky weeds of Haruki Murakami’s novel. A nice, dull, passive student (Ken’ichi Matsuyama) fixates on a suicidal friend’s sexually neurotic “lover.” …
Hanna’s parents finally get around to telling their 19-year-old daughter, the survivor of a failed abortion, that she was adopted. Forget what side of the debate you're on: a bad movie is a bad movie, and this escapee from the Hallmark Channel is strictly amateur time. If you’re not sure …
Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. Especially in the way of children. Starring Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, and CJ Adams.
An out-of-work lingerie clerk is hired as a bounty hunter to track down her ex. Katherine Heigl’s idea of a bold departure is changing her hair color. Were it not for men stepping in to save the day, our heroine wouldn’t have survived the first reel, let alone the entire …
The celebrated novel arrives onscreen to buzzy talk of dual handjobs and whispered wonderings of "Why?" The film is an overexposed snapshot of an era: a pre-Boomer burst of sex, drugs, and be-bop, chronicled by young wannabe writer Sal Paradise (Sam Riley) and exemplified by his on-again, off-again travel buddy …
Franco-Spanish director Miguel Courtois Paternina tells the story of a desperate father caught up in political intrigue — in Colombia. So: really desperate, and lots of intrigue.
Hugh Laurie ditches Catherine Keener for Leighton Meester. It would almost be understandable — seriously, Keener would make you feel inferior all the time, just by being herself, probably, and besides, older dudes flee to younger women because they're trying to flee death, and barring some larger existential paradigm, instinct …
When the Soviet Union won the gold medal in men's basketball at the 1988 Olympics, four of the five starters hailed from the same city. That city was not in Russia, but Lithuania, a country that had been under Soviet control since World War II. Lithuania had been a basketball …
French drama about an Israeli couple and a Palestinian couple who discover that their teenage sons were accidentally switched at birth. It’s not as dreadful as it sounds. The family melodrama and performances — particularly by Emmanuelle Devos and Areen Omari as the boys’ mothers — are quite effective. But …
Katie Pofahl, aspiring marine biologist, spends her half year at Monterey Bay helping to save an adorable, orphaned otter pup, with crucial help from the famous aquarium. The attempt at narrative framing, its Facebook touches applied like girlish mascara, is feeble. But the tireless otter world is opened up for …