Richard Montoya directs the film version of his own play about a pair of handsome Latino brothers — dubbed "Water" and "Power" by their father as children — who have done bad on their way to making good. Water (Enrique Murciano) is a state senator, while Power (Nicholas Gonzalez) is …
Summertime, and the living is horribly painful and awkward, because you're a pouty-slouchy teenager (Liam James) stuck riding in the titular seat of your mom's boyfriend's restored station wagon on the way to his rented beach house for a month of inarticulate misery. Your mom (Toni Collette)? She's lonely and …
Exquisitely observed story of two lightly miserable '80s Stockholm tweens — the impulsive, Mohawked cutie Klara (Mira Grosin) and the more reserved, more androgynous Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) — who make the move from punk fans to punk band, just because they can't stand the racket that another group is making …
A trio of spoiled-rotten siblings disowned by a negligent, filthy-rich father transition from a pampered existence - well-dressed henchmen pitch pennies outside the family’s six-car garage - to a life in the bowels of Mexico City. The abrupt change compels them to take menial jobs in order to survive, but …
Hey, what if a bunch of office drones got sent on a leadership retreat to a jungle island and JCVD was their life coach and things went terribly wrong?
A new laugh-withholder from Rawson Marshall Thurber, the brain behind Dodgeball. For those still reading, forced to become drug traffickers, a pot dealer (Jason Sudeikis), homeless waif (Emma Roberts), clueless Tintin lookalike (Will Poulter), and stripper (Jennifer Aniston), masquerade as an all-American family looking to smuggle a Winnebago filled with …
What did comic Alan King say after the Queen of England greeted him with, “Hello, Mr. King”? “Hello, Mrs. Queen!” That’s one of the hundreds of laughs to be had in this testament to what Mort Sahl calls the “Jews’ ability to always find the joke.” The sagging-head documentary gathers …
This might be our generation's Die Hard. If so, woe be to our generation. Like the NASCAR spoof Talladega Nights, White House Down works hard to appeal to yahoo sensibilities (the presidential limo doing donuts on the White House lawn while being fired on by rocket launchers, wa-hoo!) while at …
For 80 minutes we sit, palms choking armrests, as a flashback to boyhood explains the motivation behind the youthful American sniper (Nick Krause), alone in a car, one eye blackened and rifle cocked, who opens the picture. White Rabbit makes Bully (well-intentioned indie doc, not Larry Clark’s good time) look …
Martin Scorsese’s latest, most outrageous essay on common denominators living the life of upscale, drug-enhanced, and power-infested businessmen to the manner born. Set to the tune of metronome camera moves, protagonist and unrepentant jerk Jordan Belfort’s (Leonardo DiCaprio) first day on the job in a strip-mall penny-stock shithole finds him …
Credit director James Mangold and three screenwriters for trying something new with the superhero genre. Instead of a global threat that threatens the globe, the beclawed Logan must solve a Big Sleep-style mystery set in Japan. There's even a cleverish play on the world-weary detective: our nearly immortal hero is …
The final chapter in Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy, and very much a raised-stakes version of the first entry, Shaun of the Dead. In Shaun, a town was taken over by zombies, and the hero was forced to confront his failings. In World's End, the world is threatened by aliens, and …
The only permutation trudging along within Hollywood’s latest walking-dead pageant can be traced to its purported pricetag: who pumps $250 million into a zombie movie? Well, there’s Paramount and Brad Pitt for starters, both eager to fudge together a money-minting tentpole they can hammer into multiplexes over the next three …
An enterprising ragamuffin (newcomer Kyle Catlett) from Montana (by way of the director’s The City of Lost Children) takes a road trip. Destination: the lost District of Columbia for a Smithsonian gala in his honor. A halcyon maze, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s shrewdly sweet-tempered surreal fantasyland is an eyegasmic saturnalia of expressive …