A slicker, mainstreamier Bad Lieutenant, tagging along on an interminable work shift with a crooked L.A. narc. Even if you are prepared to believe the worst of the police (even if, perchance, you were a member of the O. J. Simpson jury), it's a stretch to believe that any cop …
To celebrate the publication of her memoir, Fabienne (Catherine Deneuve), one of history’s most celebrated beauties (and Europe’s greatest actress), has invited her daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche) — a successful screenwriter in her own right — son-in-law/“internet actor” Hank (Ethan Hawke), and young granddaughter Charlotte (Clémentine Grenier) to her chateau …
A lump of unmalleable literariness, extracted from a novel by Graham Swift. We have once again the illusion-shattering device of obviously different actors playing the same character at different ages, a device made doubly intolerable by the continual switching back and forth in time and the fairly equal amounts of …
The Jack London novel defanged, the Klondike traveloguized. The animal action is so careful not to offend the SPCA that it loses all credibility as action. In quieter times, a heartstring or two are successfully plucked. Ethan Hawke, Klaus Maria Brandauer, James Remar, with a special guest appearance by Bart …
A teacher flees college scandal and in Paris finds romance and a murder plot. Pawel Pawlikowski directed the French thriller. With Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig.