Is it strange when the wholehearted pursuit of a singular and spectacular achievement inspires pity and fear more than awe? Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s documentary about rock climber Alex Honnold makes the case that you don’t have to be crazy to climb the 3000-foot sheer granite face of …
Writer-director Jason Lew’s debut feature is very much a religious picture, dealing as it does with a wrongfully imprisoned man’s conversion to Islam and the subsequent test of that conversion. But while the religious stuff is clearly set forth and left in plain sight, it’s easy to overlook, given the …
A note at the end informs us that near the end of his life — and near the onset of World War II — pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was visited by a young Oxford don in his London home. Well, home away from home: he still pines for his beloved …
Let’s start with the biggest and happiest surprise about Disney’s followup to what was, before the Lion King remake, the biggest animated film ever: Olaf the Snowman is considerably funnier and more useful to the story this time ‘round. His ridiculous recounting of the first film’s events to some folks …
Let’s start with the biggest and happiest surprise about Disney’s followup to what was, before the Lion King remake, the biggest animated film ever: Olaf the Snowman is considerably funnier and more useful to the story this time ‘round. His ridiculous recounting of the first film’s events to some folks …
Let’s start with the biggest and happiest surprise about Disney’s followup to what was, before the Lion King remake, the biggest animated film ever: Olaf the Snowman is considerably funnier and more useful to the story this time ‘round. His ridiculous recounting of the first film’s events to some folks …
Let’s start with the biggest and happiest surprise about Disney’s followup to what was, before the Lion King remake, the biggest animated film ever: Olaf the Snowman is considerably funnier and more useful to the story this time ‘round. His ridiculous recounting of the first film’s events to some folks …
Because your little girl simply will not stop singing "Let it Go" and "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" you are seized with the faint and entirely unreasonable hope that taking her to see this sing-along version will somehow sate her appetite. She will join with the movie for …
You know where this train is going before it leaves the station: the film opens with cell-phone footage of BART officers subduing a young black man who does not appear to require subduing. Then you hear a shot. The young black man was 22-year-old Oscar Grant, and Fruitvale Station is …
Kung Fu Mama movie notable first for its heroine’s willingness to debase herself (“I’m a bad mother…a worthless ghetto gangster piece of trash”) in her efforts to win sympathy for her one-good-thing quest to save her kidnapped kid from a nasty organ-harvesting operation. Notable second for its crazypants lighting: a …
Just as Tom Hardy’s taciturn Max was not the dramatic center of director and co-writer George Miller’s hyper-kinetic Mad Max: Fury Road — that honor went to Charlize Theron’s rebellious Praetorian Furiosa and her mad quest to find a paradise in the wasteland — so that same Furiosa is not …
There's a lot of talk at the outset, just in case you needed a refresher on where things stand. (Previously on The Fast and the Furious: the team lost one of their own to the brother of the guy they put away. Letty has amnesia and cannot recall her life …
Gangster Squad may lack brains and heart, but it's got guts. You get to see 'em right at the outset, when a Chicago crook who dares to cross power-mad Los Angeles gangster Mickey Cohen (a guttural Sean Penn) gets ripped in half by a couple of sedans. (Then again, you …
Once upon a time, not everybody carried a camera in their pockets, and perhaps as a result, people paid more attention to the work of those who gave their lives to it. There’s a lot of love in Sasha Waters Freyer’s documentary on the seminal street photographer: love for Winogrand …