Science-fiction juvenilia -- and wish-fulfillment stuff, to be sure, but not so much what an actual child would wish as what a protective grown-up would wish him to wish. A junior-high-school student (at Charles M. Jones Junior High, in salute to the animator of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, et al.) …
Multicharacter fictionalization of Eric Schlosser's nonfiction exposé of the same name. With it, director Richard Linklater picks up a placard and joins the radical parade of American fictioneers from Frank Norris and Upton Sinclair and Jack London and John Steinbeck and on down. The major issues, too many to fit …
Paul Schrader puts Hitchcock's bomb-on-bus theory to the test in this diary of a despairing priest. Ethan Hawke stars as the walking time bomb.
Cold, dry, serious, even somber piece of science fiction, though all of those attributes may seem somewhat exaggerated as a result of the musical score by Michael (Monotonyman) Nyman, who repeats a cluster of half a dozen notes, very slowly, with slight variations, over and over, until you want to …
Who'd have thought spending 90 minutes in a car with Selena Gomez could be this stagnant? A disembodied voice orders a former race car driver (Ethan Hawke), whose wife he holds hostage, and a banker’s daughter (Gomez) to do his nefarious bidding in this extended commercial for the Shelby Super …
A dream of overnight success on the New York art scene, as well as of a longer road to written-in-the-stars true love, realized in the dreamiest cinematic style: the dizziest, the dopiest. There are a number of recognizable points of connection with the Dickens novel on which the movie is …
After a reign of three brief years, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet is overthrown as the worst Hamlet in screen history. It was no problem to modernize the setting by moving the action to the Hotel Elsinore, New York headquarters of the multinational Denmark Corporation; but we are still stuck, even in …
Annie (Rose Byrne) and her sycophantic boyfriend Duncan (Chris O'Dowd) come face-to-face with a reclusive rock star (Ethan Hawke) in this romcom directed by Jesse Peretz.
Overly verbal, narration-heavy elucidation of the world of an illicit arms dealer. It's no help that the narrator and arms dealer is a smug cynic who chews our ears off for a full two hours: "By the mid-Eighties, my weapons were represented in eight out of the world's top ten …
Maggie’s (Greta Gerwig) plan is to get the man (Ethan Hawke) who left his wife for her to go back to said wife (Julianne Moore). Also starring Maya Rudolph and New York City. Adapted and directed by Rebecca Miller (The Ballad of Jack and Rose).
An unsentimental but emotional film for anyone who suspects in their heart of hearts that suffering really is the only thing that makes anyone worth a damn. Particularly if it is borne gracefully, but also if it’s not. Sometimes, it’s enough to simply remain in its presence. “Maudie” is Maud …
World War II movie conceived on the small scale and small budget of the likes of The Desert Rats, Attack, Hell Is for Heroes: half a dozen survivors of a Reconnaissance and Intelligence squad are holed up in a strategically placed chateau in the Ardennes Forest. Its contemporariness, its separateness …
Ethan Hawke, with his hair framing his face like parted curtains, works very hard at being fumblingly innocent and ingratiating on a first date with his Dream Girl, while also having to dodge crooked cops and the Chinese Mafia. It's too tough a job. With Teri Polo; directed by Jonathan …