No you won’t. From Jessie Nelson, the man who brought us Stepmom, I Am Sam, and Fred Claus...need I go on? Staler than year-old rum cake and louder than June Squbb’s holiday sweater, Hollywood yet again ushers in the Christmas season with a dysfunctional family racing to get it together …
What has more masked participants than an Eyes Wide Shut Halloween orgy? Lucha libre! Directors Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz play up the local color, moving from arena to arena in pursuit of today’s biggest names in the CMLL, Mexico’s World Wrestling Council. (The last half hour of my life …
The promise of a Polish musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s tenebrous fairy tale The Little Mermaid, set against the backdrop of a happening ‘80s strip club, proved too good to be true. Director Agnieszka Smoczynska acknowledges a side of the author that Disney dare not touch — “Mommy, how …
Flavio Florencio's documentary follows Morgana Love, a Mexican transgender opera singer, on her quest to win a Bangkok beauty pageant so that she can afford gender reassignment surgery. In Spanish and English.
Quick: when you're trying to forge a new civilization from the ashes of the apocalypse, what's the most important element for making sure it endures? That's right: babies. And in a world where the test tubes have all been smashed, if you want babies, you need women: their wombs, their …
Quick: when you're trying to forge a new civilization from the ashes of the apocalypse, what's the most important element for making sure it endures? That's right: babies. And in a world where the test tubes have all been smashed, if you want babies, you need women: their wombs, their …
Come for Arnold Schwarzenegger's wrinkled visage and grizzled beard; stay for Abigail Breslin's fine teen-facing-death pathos. The killer disease is the necroambulatory virus; she's slowly turning into a flesh-eating zombie, and everybody knows it. What to do in the meantime is hard to figure out, but the harrowing events — …
Channing Tatum gets back together with his band of beefy balletic bros for "one last fuckin' ride" in the sequel to Steven Soderbergh's surprisingly sweet stripper saga Magic Mike. There's nothing at stake — their destination is a convention, not a contest, and it's not even clear they'll get to …
What is a cynic other than a failed romantic? Director Hannes Holm adapts Fredrik Backman’s popular German novel about a know-it-all curmudgeon (Rolf Lassgård) who, after being let go from 43 years on the job, turns his attention to the project of making the lives of his fellow condo association …
What does it say when they set out to make a Cold War caper and they wind up casting a Brit (Henry Cavill) as the American, an American (Armie Hammer) as the Russian, and a Swede (Alicia Vikander) as the...well, not a Swede? Answer: not much, which is okay, since …
How is it possible for Al Pacino to turn in one of the best and worst performances of the year essentially playing the same character? The truth is in the storytelling. For 97 minutes director and generous renegade David Gordon Green delights in following Manglehorn (Al Pacino), a small-town locksmith …
Cate Blanchett expertly adopts the personas of derelict, sanitation worker, scientist, housewife, newscaster, elementary schoolteacher, punk rocker, mourner, dance troupe director, puppeteer, society matron, and businesswoman and uses them to deliver excerpts from various classics of the titular form. Many of them have to do with artists and the art …
Why would a black man from Buenaventura, Colombia want to move to Bogota, a place where "the only black people are the ones who clean the shit out of the toilets"? The answer lies in this brief, motile story of low-rent (but high-tech) drug trafficking and its inimical relationship to …
Trisha Ziff directs this engrossing account of real-life nightcrawler Enrique Metinides. The tenacious photojournalist — he’s devoted his life to purposefully placing himself in the wrong place at the right time — has been taking official police photos since age nine. (As a child, it was not unusual for him …