There’s some powerful stuff about modern soldiering and military culture in Greg Barker’s brief documentary on the first American soldiers to enter Afghanistan after 9/11. As a reporter, Barker is the right man for the job: he manages the special kind of rapport you’d need to get an Army Ranger …
Director Chris McCay’s whirlwind romp through The Dark Knight’s universe keeps things kid-friendly by operating from the notion that Batman is a seven-year-old boy, his development arrested by the traumatic experience of losing his parents at a tender age. He doesn’t want to share: he regards his greatest enemy as …
The popular children’s television series receives the Lego-brand feature film treatment, which means lots of rapid-fire gags, a cheerful affirmation of the value of teamwork, and Daddy issues. This time, they’re between the evil Lord Garmadon, who is forever attempting to conquer the city of Ninjago, and his son Lloyd, …
Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren star in this ambling comedy about dementia on board a Winnebago.
If this year’s most impressive supporting cast — Nia Long, Judy Greer, Gillian Jacobs, Michael Cera, Jeff Garlin, Rhea Perlman, Megan Mullaly, Fred Melamed, Shiri Appleby, David Paymer, and Maria Gibbs — were playing slices of fruit suspended in a bowl of slowly thickening Jell-O, the result would still be …
You shrugged at Werner Herzog’s historical drama Queen of the Desert, but maybe you’ll find yourself taking a second, more interested look at this documentary version of Gertrude Bell’s astonishing life as an Englishwoman who, among other things, helped to shape the Middle East in the wake of World War …
It's produced by Sean Hannity. Enough said.
There’s a very good chance that the love of Isabelle’s (Juliette Binoche) life will always be someone else. The divorcee goes through men quicker than Billy Jack could kick apart a patient procession of would-be attackers, and that includes her ex-husband (Laurent Grévill). There’s the piggish banker (Xavier Beauvois), whose …
Brett Whitcomb's documentary look at the music maker Suzanne Ciani.
A study in context. Writer-director Jeff Baena adapted this story of three wayward nuns and the wayward world they inhabit from the Italian writer Bocaccio’s 14th-century collection The Decameron. And in medieval Europe, the story’s randy ribaldry among irreligious religious would be obviously (and highly) comedic. Today, it requires the …