Rather a conventional historical epic by Eisenstein, about a 13th-century Teutonic invasion of Russia. (The patriotic trumpetry undoubtedly was more stirring in 1938, with Hitler situated right next door.) Much of the work seems quite handsome and intricate, and much seems lifeless and overcalculated. Everything else aside, the climactic battle …
Dreamlike narrative in monochrome, a stout, slow, ponderous old lady visiting her grandson at a dry and dusty military camp in Chechnya, questioning his mission: “You can destroy. When will you learn to rebuild?” A Russian art film from the dreaded Alexander Sokurov, challengingly dull, uneventful, amorphous. The lead actress, …
Alex Cross is a detective whose powers of deduction border on the clairvoyant; he can look at your shirt and tell you what you're having for dinner tomorrow night. But the third big-screen outing for novelist James Patterson's celebrated Washington D.C. come solver will probably be best remembered as a …
Michael Caine as a bargain-basement Lothario with a heavy accent on cockney crassness, and with a cocksure understanding of where your sympathies and your scorn are supposed to fall. Like most movie ne'er-do-wells, particularly those who garner Oscar nominations, he melts into self-pitying sobs somewhere near the end. Directed by …
A new, updated, relocated Alfie — an Alfie for America, for the Bedhead generation, for the erectile-dysfunction era. He's still a Brit, and still talks straight to the camera, but now our lady-killer must be a chiselled Adonis (Jude Law) instead of a legitimate heir to Michael Caine (a Rhys …
Even more Al Gore on the perils of climate change.
Circumstances force Majed to leave his comfortable life and move from his private school to a public school. Over time, he gains the respect of his classmates because of his excellent football skills and joins the school team in a competition, hoping to win a grand prize.
Sara and Ali have been close friends since childhood, and together, they face many different situations and problems with their friends and families.
Crime action thriller about the murderer of Jabal’s father, who is spotted alive in Bulgaria. Jabal heads a fierce hunt passing by Bulgaria and Istanbul. With the aim to bring Nazem back to justice to Al Hayba village. Directed by: Samer El Berkawi, starring Taim Hasan, Mona Wassef, Said Serhan, …
Will Smith's impression of the self-proclaimed "Greatest," Cassius Marcellus Clay. For entertainment purposes, it can't touch Billy Crystal's impression of him. (Though, for those same purposes, there can be no quibble with Jon Voight's Howard Cosell: a glued-on nose as phony as the hairpiece.) The two-and-a-half-hour skim through the prime …
Twisted and twisty psychological thriller, with a large cast of largely unsavory characters, and an almost farcical final act. The nervous, jumpy visual style lacks some of the solidness of the performances, especially the central one of Sandrine Kiberlain. Based on Ruth Rendell's The Tree of Hands. With Nicole Garcia …
A 13-year-old soldier, María (Karen Torres), is ordered to carry her commanding officer’s baby into battle with her. (The advantaged birth-mother is a fellow platoon-member.) Never once questioning the assignment is either an indication of María’s extreme loyalty to duty or a preoccupation with keeping secret her own pregnancy by …
Whether he's dancing on top of a car or madly tapping a coffee spoon, Ali (Adeel Akhtar) has enough nervous energy in him to power all of Bradford. Ava’s (Claire Rushbrook) work as a teacher’s assistant introduces the Irish born immigrant to her Indian counterpart, the landlord of a student …
Claudio Giovannesi directs, cowrites, and composes the music for this story of an Italian Muslim youth of Egyptian extraction who must navigate adolescence, heritage, and religio-cultural-romantic entanglements. In Italian with English subtitles.