Writer-director Martin Zandlivet’s terse, tense, and terrific post-WWII film establishes two of its three strengths immediately. First, star Roland Møller as Danish sergeant Carl Rasmussen, his eyes radiating barely controlled emotion from their deep and hooded recesses as he drives his Jeep alongside a column of defeated German soldiers. Second, …
An old Aussie with cancer (Michael Caton) takes a long road trip before checking out. Directed by Jeremy Sims.
How to gussy up your completely conventional story of boy-meets-girl, boy-marries-girl, boy-gets-famous, boy-moves-on? Well, you could start by chopping up the timeline so that we start with the heartbroken ending, cut to the ecstatic beginning, slam to a curdled late-period fight, and work from there. Oh, and you could also …
Surprising Vin Diesel vehicle: first, for the initial switcheroo from supernatural action-adventure to supernatural whodunit; second, for a sturdily built storyline; third, for a somewhat lively and lighthearted turn from its often somnolent star. (Those widened, puppy-dog eyes!) Sadly, the more expected elements do much to dull the pleasure of …
Cristina Comencini cowrites and directs this story of a dad's five daughters, all from different mothers, who gather to celebrate their father on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Mark Duplass is not about to let his pretty lady Olivia Wilde die; not when he can pump her full of his Lazarus serum.
A friendly alien transmission arrives in 1977, and with it comes a keen-o indestructible superhero costume. For whatever reasons, the delivery is intercepted by four slobs; each finds himself the bearer of one piece of the armor. Though it arrived under the aegis “A YouTube Original” (oxymoron, anyone?), nothing prepared …
Director and co-writer Alejandro Iglesias Mendizabal presents an everyday life epic in nine chapters. In Spanish with English subtitles.
If you know the difference between a quadrakill and a pentakill, you may enjoy this video game showdown.
Patricia Clarkson (Cairo Time) stars as a recently ditched book critic bumping up against the fact that she never learned to drive. (She had a husband for that.) Ben Kingsley (Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb) co-stars as a recently arrived Sikh driving instructor/taxi driver who never learned …
How do you make a boring film about gangster twins in ‘60s London, one of whom is a violent, paranoid schizophrenic homosexual, and both of whom are played by Tom Hardy? Easy: neglect the violent, paranoid schizophrenic homosexual and play up the other one’s girlfriend. While you’re at it, give …
LEGO as cinema! LEGO as mathematical science! LEGO as therapy! LEGO as art! LEGO as theme park crammed with craggy scale replicas! LEGO as Holocaust remembrance!? (What do you expect from a Weinstein release?) LEGO as official Star Wars merchandiser! Leg’go the kiddie propaganda and there might have been something …
Mother Teresa's dark night of the soul.
Another behind-the-scenes, semi-biographic glimpse into Hollywood’s past, along the lines of My Week With Marilyn. Up-and-coming Life magazine photog Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson) is prescient enough to sell his editor on a layout featuring a relatively unknown, yet divinely dynamic youngster named James Dean (Dane DeHaan). (Stock thinks the youngster …
God grant me the serenity and the wisdom of knowing the difference between movies and this, the closest we’ll ever come to experiencing someone of Meryl Streep’s caliber in a Death Wish spinoff. The always brilliant, technically perfect Viola Davis stars opposite comic relief Jennifer Lopez as a pill- and …