In order to escape an oppressive home life (complete with a dead dog), a guileless young woman (Alice Lowe) unwittingly takes up with a charismatic serial killer (Steve Oram). Badlands, it’s not. Scripted by its two leads and the aptly named Amy Jump, director Ben Wheatley’s infantile black comedy has …
When someone paints "Come to Silent Hill" on your wall in drippy black paint, well, there's only one thing to do!
At first, this “old dark house” horror film, shot in one continuous hand-held take, felt like an exercise in pulling focus — the Russian Ark of American horror films. But the end justifies the means, as this boogeyman turns out to be terrifyingly commonplace. Elizabeth Olsen, the most talented Olsen …
David O. Russell needs to leave Philadelphia almost as much as John Woo needs to stay in Hong Kong. For his follow-up to The Fighter, Russell once again takes the low road in search of truth and beauty amidst a group of boorish louts with personalities akin to the cast …
The epic tale of a friendship between a young Swedish boy who thinks his aunt and uncle are his biological parents and the son of a wealthy Jewish bookseller who fled Nazi Germany. Shake a tree come awards season and a Holocaust film is bound to fall out. Director Lisa …
Simon (Brady Corbet, who also worked on the script) moves fast. Less than two weeks after landing in Paris to repair a ruptured heart, the scruffy, deeply disturbed American grad student has already teamed with a prostitute (Mati Diop) and hatched a scheme to blackmail her Johns. Writer-director Antonio Campos …
James Bond lumbers back to his roots. A Bond film is supposed to deliver mayhem and eye candy in exotic locales; Skyfall offers memorable set pieces in Shanghai, Scotland, and an abandoned island factory compound. A Bond film needs gadgets; Skyfall knowingly gives us a personalized Walther and a radio …
It took four screenwriters and two directors to extrude this inflated load. Matt (Mike Birbiglia) is a bartender in a comedy club who doubles as a frustrated, painfully unfunny stand-up. Even his girlfriend (Lauren Ambrose) and her chums can't resist talking over Matt's set. A sudden bout with RBD (REM …
Digitalized but not dim-witted fairy tale, with a heavy dose of gothic gloom and hard action. A few lumbering stretches in Rupert Sanders’s fantasy are not a burden, effects (notably dwarves partly inhabited by famous, funny British actors) are good, and the atmosphere is intense. As chief hunk, Chris Hemsworth …
Christian Slater, Sean Bean, and Ving Rhames star in action thriller about a group of millionaires who get their kicks being placed in military situations.
Ice-T takes you on a lyrical odyssey/It's time to do away with all the false modesty/He's here to document the ascendance of rap/From the days when all the old people said, "What's that crap?"/To the world of today where hip-hop is king/And nobody asks, "Don't they ever just sing?" Yeah, …
An agitprop-spewing band of chain-smoking French teenage rebels-without-a-clue spend the summer of 1970 hurling molotovs and printing leaflets to gear up for a revolution that never happened. They were of an age and know-it-all mindset which believed that all of societies’ problems could be summed up and solved over a …
All kinds of Germans make all kinds of music.