Writer-director Peter Landesman attempts to go big by going small - shifting the focus of attention surrounding the Kennedy assassination away from the political whodunit and toward the lives of people who were involved in the events of the November 22, 1963. We meet Abraham Zapruder, who set out to …
Fascinating look into the world of science — or more precisely, the lives of scientists — structured around the construction and deployment of the Large Hadron Collider, aka the Largest Experiment in Human History. The goal is to observe the heretofore undetected Higgs Boson particle, the weight of which may …
2011 saw the United States release of Love Crime, a French corporate-erotic thriller starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier as a couple of hot lesbians, er, as a couple of professional women who get entangled in less than professional ways. Now, just two years later, Brian De Palma is …
A simple story, complexly told. After a four-year absence, a man returns to face the wife and daughter he skipped out and to rub eyeballs with his dreaded replacement. By the time director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) and co-writer Massoumeh Lahidji (Certified Copy) get around to revealing the real reason …
India gets its version of Harold and the Purple Crayon?
A snooty journalist (Steve Coogan), remiss when it comes to covering human interest stories, rides shotgun on a road trip with a bemused mother (Judi Dench) in search of the son who, decades earlier, was taken from her and sold for adoption by corrupt Irish Catholic nuns. Coogan tries his …
A fine thriller, old-fashioned in the best senses. The grounded (but still otherworldly) setting: American diving experts assisting the Norwegian government in building a deep-sea oil pipeline. (The tension is there at the outset: technicians from the two sides arguing about what sort of gas mixture to give the divers …
A rare exception to the old line about the book being better than a movie, The Place Beyond the Pines is a small-scale epic that might have been better as a novel. In a novel, we might not have minded the sudden loss of major characters, the 15-years-later epilogue that …
What’s slower than watching two guys paint broken lines down the center of a highway? This dramedy about a pair of equally dashed road workers (lead maintenance man Paul Rudd and his slumberish brother-in-law, Emile Hirsch) who combat boredom and isolation with petty bickering. Director David Gordon Green (*Snow Angels*, …
Grueling, downbeat, and ultimately indulgent thriller starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, the former a self-reliant Christian father who decides to take an investigation into his daughter's disappearance into his own (bloody, torturous) hands, the latter a twitchy Masonic cop who's handling the case. The story is heavy on symbolism …
The story comes to a new finale! Homura must now deal with the loneliness of being separated from Madoka, after Madoka rewrote the laws of the universe in order to stop the plague of witches before they have even been created, thus making herself ontologically redundant, since she gave up …
How long since we've had a good immigration comedy? That depends on your opinion of Green Card, and also this. This one, at least, has mariachi.