Dance! Dance! Dance! Or, watch other people dance!
Marlon Brando left behind hundreds of hours of audio-taped autobiography (and some home movies) for documentary director Stevan Riley to effectively make over as the world’s first talking cyber-head documentary. What appears to be an unfledged 3D recreation of Brando’s head informs us that before his death, the actor posed …
A teacher gives her all for her five impoverished kindergarten students in Hong Kong. Directed by Adrian Kwan.
History alert: “Little Boy” was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Here, it refers to Pepper Flynt Busbee, a seven year old boy who sets out to end World War II so that his father will come home.
A very little chaos, and more's the pity. Kate Winslet stars in director Alan Rickman's story of a lady landscaper whose willingness to fiddle with man's imposition of order onto nature catches the eye of frustrated the Master Gardener tasked with giving the King of France a foretaste of heaven …
You may not think that Saturday Night Live is funny anymore. But who needs to be funny when you're important? Important enough for a documentary-history-thingy like this one, anyway.
The chichi ’60s credit design and blunt, bitchy observational chatter that opened the film held promise. While vacationing in Biarritz, a Parisian fashionista (Julie Delpy), desperately in need of having her “chimney swept,” falls for a small-town IT geek (Dany Boon) and fellow divorcée, just days away from accepting a …
Not one unintentional gibber, eye-roll, or check of the watch during the 139 minute running time makes it impossible to slam what by all rights should have been a slam-dunk awful Nicholas Sparks rodeo romance. Director George Tillman knows where to place the camera to make the schoolgirls swoon, but …
An optometrist offering free eye-exams slowly infiltrates the mob chain of command to confront and hold accountable the men responsible for the brutal murder of his brother. What sounds like a pitch for a second-rate HBO series is in reality the first of two intended companion pieces to Joshua Oppenheimer’s …
Action comedy sequel to Lost in Thailand. Subtitled.
Joachim Trier directs and co-writes a tale of miserable men mutely mourning Mom. Though we open on new dad Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) as he wanders a hospital, halfheartedly seeking food for his bedridden wife before scoping out some ex-sex with a gal accompanying her dying mother, this is actually the …
[Trailer NSFW.] Hardcore French satire. That is, a simultaneously blistering and pitying take on Young People Today from cinematic provocateur Gaspar Noe (Enter the Void) that regularly features erect penises, sexual congress, and ejaculation. Man-behind-the-meat Murphy (Karl Glusman) is a comically self-regarding and immature American film student living in Paris …
The anime adventures of anime schoolgirls, based on the popular television series.
If you're going to do a biopic of Brian Wilson, the musical mind behind an unconventional album like the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, you probably ought to break convention, even if it's just a little bit. Director Bill Pohlad serves up a healthy portion of the standard stuff: bad dad, …