Director Cristian Mungiu follows up his film 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days with a harrowing, unsentimental, but hugely sympathetic story of a tiny religious community's attempt to care for a damaged soul who comes into their midst. Voichita and Alina are young women who clung to one another …
Aside from Drew Barrymore’s Greenpeace activist, there’s not an unselfish, trustworthy character to be found in this well-intentioned “save the whales” tale. It’s a kid pic, so the screenwriters wisely (unknowingly?) never allow personality and emotion to get in the way of the overriding message. A cast of familiar faces …
In celebration of what would have been the 70th birthday of the late head Deadhead Jerry Garcia, the screening will feature the 1977 tripfest The Grateful Dead Movie, as well as a special birthday commemoration on Garcia directed by Justin Kreutzmann (son of Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann), featuring the Dead’s …
If it's not quite the Snow White retelling we've all been waiting for, it's certainly closer than some. For nearly its entire running time, Blanca Nieves feels like a bona fide fairy tale, the sort the Brothers Grimm might have collected had they been doing their work in 1920s Spain. …
In 2008, a group of bored SoCal teens — some well-off, others less so — started getting their kicks by breaking (actually, walking) into various minor celebrities' homes and stealing their clothes, their shoes, their jewelry, and even their accessories. This is a filmed re-enactment of that. Director Sofia Coppola …
Smart Southern Baptist boy swallows enough religious hypocrisy to sour him on Texas Baptist College and decides to head north to godless liberal-land (Reed College in Oregon). It isn’t long before he’s knocking back tall ones and knocking religion as primitive, but what do you know, love has a way …
Rohit Shetty's action-packed remake of the 1979 Bollywood comedy Gol Maal. You can see every penny of the film's nearly $14 million budget up there on the screen. Brightly colored, dancy, slo-mo goodness abounds.
Jeremy Renner, apparently tiring of his second-tier superhero status as Hawkeye in The Avengers, takes a page from the more glamorous Captain America (better living through chemistry). Also a page from his franchise predecessor (ruggedly handsome sandy-haired super-agent seeks refuge from government baddies with a fetching female). But this time, …
A down-on-her-luck ditz (Juno Temple) filches a teapot from a rural antique shop, only to discover that the 2000-year-old boiler -- branded with a Star of David and once owned by Hitler -- is cursed. The more pain inflicted on its owner, the longer the stream of hundred dollar bills …
With another wild-haired royal at the helm (and only one-tenth of Tangled’s wit, charm, and stereoscopic invention), Pixar’s latest amounts to little more than Rapunzel redux. What begins as a standard Disney fairy princess outing takes a turn for the better halfway through, when a magic spell converts one of …
Milla Jovovich plays an Eastern European mostly-reformed grifter trying to raise an American boy in the American heartland. Bill Pullman plays an American heartlander.