In a word, stunning. After an eight-year absence, world cinema’s foremost aesthete, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, returns with a vengeance. Shu Qi, Director Hou’s leading lady of choice, stars as a 9th-century enforcer, taught to kill by the nun who raised her and later contracted to take out her former husband-to-be. Viewers …
Sometimes, the walls you build to keep out the giant man-eating people just aren't strong enough. Directed by Shinji Higuchi. Subtitled.
Animated action fantasy from director Tetsuro Araki.
Joss Whedon's follow-up to his superheroes-learning-to-get-along hit The Avengers turns out to be more of a follow-through, an enormously dense setup for the sprawling What's Next of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. To wit: there's these Infinity Stones, the most powerful destructive forces in the universe, and someone is out to …
Sanjay Leela Bhansali directs this historical dromance about the second hereditary Peshwa of the Maratha empire and his second wife. Starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. In Hindi with English subtitles.
An Indian must find a way to transport a mute Pakistani girl back home.
Documentary from Nelson George about the rise and fall and rise of Misty Copeland, the first black ballerina to perform as a prima ballerina with the American Ballet Theater.
Fly-on-the-wall doc about Justin Peck — a 25-year-old member of the New York City corps de ballet — and his effort to create an original work for the company. (He got the gig, we are told, because of his success at the New York Choreographic Institute.) The fly is very …
Those wanting to bask in gore will have a long wait in this agonizingly slow to start set-’em-up-to-watch-’em-die horror fantasy. A degenerate team of five Turkish cops respond to a 911 call complaining that their neighbor in the abandoned building next door is conducting a Black Mass. Credit director/co-writer Can …
The final gala performance of "the world's greatest classical music festival," recorded live at London's Royal Albert Hall.
The cradle of humanity becomes a crucible of its opposite. Netflix's first foray into theaters makes the most of the big screen's additional square footage by placing its small subject on a very large canvas: specifically, Agu (Abraham Attah), an African boy on the cusp of adolescence, navigating his way …
Chris Evans and Alice Eve meet up in Grand Central and spend a magical night in New York City. Directed by Captain America, er, Chris Evans.
Before Mr. T and Steven Seagal, there was Evel Knievel. In the span of seven years, the daredevil stunt cyclist became one of the most recognizable figures, action or otherwise, on the planet. Knievel’s was a life of constant reinvention, an inner-crusade of never-ending one-upmanship with but one goal in …