Love and physics. A man named Adam (Jim Sturgess) and a woman named Eden (Kirstin Dunst) find themselves living worlds apart, except that's really not that far, since one world is quite close to the other. There is the matter of opposing gravitational forces to contend with, however.
From The Sheik to Abu Ghraib, this documentary looks at the way that media portrayal of Arabs and Arab culture influences public perception and even foreign policy. Or maybe it's the way foreign policy influences media portrayal. It's complicated, and not entirely pleasant.
Signal the booth announcer: “Today, on the Al Jazeera After School Special, a man’s world as seen through the eyes of a 10-year-old girl. Waad Mohammed stars as Wadjda, the tyke Jonesing for a bike, in this feel-good triumph of the human spirit.” Wadjda had the makings of a masterpiece...in …
Telejournalist Peter Nicks hired a camera crew to catalog a day in the life of the bustling emergency room of Oakland’s Highland Hospital. Have you ever been to an ER? Waiting times are interminable and tempers fray as uninsured patients lose their patience. What else is new? It’s being billed …
Shaken from their Manhattan pinnacle by the big recession, Jennifer Anniston and Paul Rudd find new life and free love at a rural commune. David Wain directed; with Justin Theroux, Alan Alda, Lauren Ambrose, Malin Akerman.
Ten reasons not to see this film: 1. The Weinstein Company annually likes to dangle Holocaust-themed films (Life is Beautiful, The Reader, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Good, Defiance) in front of Academy voters. Every awards season, Harvey Weinstein leads the charge with, “We must never forget...there’s still plenty …
Do we really need another movie to tell us that children shouldn’t play with guns? War Witch begins promisingly enough with a young mother recounting her life story to her unborn child. Komona’s (Rachel Mwanza) prenatal narration picks up with a rebel soldier ordering the 12-year-old girl to kill her …
Ben Stiller stars as the standard "citizen who's into community issues because he can't deal with the trouble he's got at home," but he wisely steps aside and gives ownership of the film to Vince Vaughn's "suburban Dad looking for bro-bonding." The Watch is about an overzealous neighborhood watch that …
Director and cowriter Nanni Moretti presents us with a “what if” meditation on the passing of the papal torch. Following the death of the old Pope, the new elect (played with timid sincerity by Michel Piccoli) finds himself emotionally unable to face the responsibility of his new station. The film …
Investigative documentarian Alex Gibney (Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God) turns his camera on Julian Assange and his crusade to make information free. Assange has denounced the project and refused to participate. Make of that what you will.
The “West Memphis Three” -- Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin -- were teenagers in 1993 when they were wrongfully convicted of the murders of three 8-year old boys. Directed by investigative journalist Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil), West of Memphis picks up where Joe Berlinger and Bruce …
A fairy tale of divorce, one that imagines an blissful way out of the trauma brought on by Mom and Dad putting a bullet in the love that gave rise to your existence. Julianne Moore is a comically narcissistic aging rocker; Steve Coogan is her gotta-ramble mate, and Onata Aprile …
A multi-character (pregnant) chick flick with five converging storylines about expectant couples. Don’t expect much in the way of wit or originality from this Lifetime Channel stray, but the appealing cast and cinematographer Xavier Pérez Grobet’s balanced ‘Scope frames help defray much of the pain induced by a labored script. …