The life of Hathiram Baba is chronicled in this devotional biopic.
A star turn in Greta Gerwig’s Ladybird made it clear that Saoirse Ronan could play contemporary as well as period, so her performance here as a blushing English bride approaching her wedding bower in a seaside hotel circa 1962 shouldn’t pose any danger of pigeonholing. Still, she’s awfully good at …
You were rightfully disappointed by the Hollywood presentation of a grieving Jewish family in This is Where I Leave You, but maybe you’ll find something a little more ekht in this debut from writer-director Asaph Polonsky about a couple trying to return to life after sitting shiva for their son. …
With a depressive bipolar mother (Cynthia Nixon) and a father who stands gelid and forever unconfronted (Pierce Brosnan), it’s no wonder their recently spurned, curly-haired nebbish of a son (Callum Turner) rebounds with the old man’s mistress (Kate Beckinsale). It’s a New York-based romance told in reverse-angles from Marc Webb …
When they’re not pissing out forest fires, a group of misogynistic oafs sit around listening to heavy metal while debating the intellectual capacity of the bar tramps who agree to sleep with them. The only one who seems to be genuinely happily married is retired firefighter Jeff Bridges. Bridges gets …
Call it The Starkening. After Iron Man’s alter ego got neurotic in Iron Man 3 and morally serious in Captain America: Civil War, his spirit of devil-may-care quippiness was forced to roam the MCU, seeking new hosts. And it found some, however unlikely: first a master of Eastern mysticism (Doctor …
Fathom Events and The Metropolitan Opera present a new film by award-winning documentary filmmaker Susan Froemke that features rarely seen archival footage, stills, recent interviews, and a soundtrack of Met performances.
Don’t let the stunning, domed IMAX theater–worthy nature cinematography that opens the picture fool you. After an accident fells kayaking bird-watcher Fernando (Paul Hamy) and writer-director João Pedro Rodrigues’s bulletproof surrealism kicks in, some viewers will no doubt find themselves regretting their evening’s choice of entertainment. According to the press …
For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.
Open on a cartoon gag: inside the dank hull of a coal freighter the lumps have eyes. Our two heroes — Khaled (Sherwan Haji), the aforementioned blackened Syrian refugee and Waldemar (Sakari Kuosmanen) a burly traveling salesman-turned restaurateur — won’t officially be introduced until halfway through the picture. In the …
If the goal is to remake a bad movie, at least try and do it better. It’s faithful — give or take the nude mud-wrestling scene and ceaseless closing credits — but this make over of Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1973 blockbuster based on the best-selling autobiography of framed Devil’s Island …