Following the disappearance of a woman during a snowstorm, five strangers in a remote mountain town are caught up in a mystery that spans continents and which none of them expected. Directed by Dominik Moll.
When imagination fails, fool the public into shelling out more dough by converting past animated hits into live-action duds.
The first half-hour plays like a reel of Pixar stand-alone shorts: Woody Goes to School, Woody Saves Forky, etc. It isn’t until the arrival at Granny’s antique store that the film finds its bearings. The voice box tracheotomy was an errant touch of genius. Too bad Disney couldn’t have secured …
Pixar's longtime domination of the animation world takes its toll, as generational rifts and/or personal neuroses are what gets treated here — including Pixar's own, more-than-a-little creepy entry, Bao. Woman bites into dumpling, discovers it's sentient, raises it as her child, and then things get strange. They're still going for …
A Mormon western told from the jailer's point-of-view.
Here is the privilege of artistic reputation: even your fallow periods may serve as fertile ground. When we meet filmmaker Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas, low-key and soulful as the stand-in for writer-director Pedro Almodóvar), he is floating underwater, eyes closed, motionless, not even a bubble escaping his nostril. An artist, …