The vocabulary of this Wall Street intrigue is sufficient all by itself to kill your interest: "Euro-dollars," "currency translation," "liquidity," "stability," "short capital," "short feed stock," "bottom fishing," "cash flow," "tapped out," "down the tubes," "in the shithouse," and similar authenticities. The obfuscation brought about by this lingo almost, but …
Archive footage and present-day interviews revive the memory of G.I. protests of the Vietnam War. The physical changes in the protesters, between then and now, add visual interest to an interesting but not very visual subject. The best-known protester to take part is Jane Fonda, who brought the troops an …
Jonathan Levine’s road comedy ends the 15-year drought since movie audiences last had the pleasure of making Goldie Hawn’s on-screen acquaintance. Amy Schumer plays a recent dumpee with two non-refundable tickets to a romantic Ecuadorian paradise. So she decides to invite her judgmental, everythingophobic mother (Hawn) to join her on …
He's an illiterate loner (and eccentric inventor) and she's a widowed factory worker, in a blue-collar romance that winds up in white-collar wedlock: i.e., double happiness. Or double dippiness. Harriet Frank, Jr., and Irving Ravetch, veteran scriptwriters and card-carrying Hemophiliac Liberals, have polished the screenplay to a slippery slickness ("You …
Jason Bateman is Judd, a man who, by his own admission, has never taken any chances, who has spent his whole life playing it safe. Oh, dear. Cue the manic pixie dream girl. While you're at it, throw in a dead dad, a wayward wife, a trip home, a sexually …
The teamwork of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin produces something like half-a-Godard, a stripped-down but long-winded simulacrum (approx. 300 words per image), a handy anthology of concepts, color combinations, and chalked-out camera moves from any number of previous Godard movies, but particularly Two or Three Things I Know about Her. …
With Raggedy Man, you could feel that Jack Fisk wanted to make exactly that movie; with this one, you can feel instead that he wanted just to make a movie, another movie, any movie. Or at least any movie that had his wife, Sissy Spacek, in it. It is of …