Don't see We Are Your Friends for its nonsensical attempt to make Electronic Dance Music into a digital means for conveying the artist's interior anguish. Nor for its silly, Instagram-level aphorisms (no, the best part of anything is not in fact the moment before it starts). Nor for its grab-bag …
The "we" is white folks, the "here" is Africa, and the "friends" is, for the most part, pure chicanery. Documentarian Hubert Sauper (Darwin's Nightmare) flies a tiny prop plane around Sudan during the maelstrom surrounding South Sudan's vote for independence, talking to anyone who will talk to him.
Not since Like Normal People — the 1979 TV movie starring Sean Cassidy and Linda Purl as a developmentally disabled couple determined to marry — has a more physically perfect specimen been cast to play the part of an intellectually challenged character. The radiant Moran Rosenblatt stars as Hagit, a …
A so-white nerd in need of marriage counseling (Josh Gad) seeks the services of an undercover professional (Kevin Hart) to equip him with a paranymph and nine mentally-dwarfed groomsmen.
Open-faced Kristen Wiig stars as Alice, a borderline-personality woman who believes everything Oprah tells her about being a special person who deserves to win. And who, when she wins $87 million dollars in the lottery, decides to host a TV show about...herself. What starts out looking like a quirky attack …
A hush falls over the rackety classroom the moment an overdue teacher bursts through the door. When pressed to outline the day’s curriculum, an unprepared student jabbers out a couple of run-on sentences that end in apple-polishing. Sounds like a typical day in the homeroom. But this isn’t your average …
What would happen if you stripped vampirism of all its moral horror and existential drama and just made it a thing, a way you happened to go from day to day? And then what if you allowed a documentary crew to come in and film your quotidian, blood-sucking, eternal existence? …
What may wind up being the final film from Studio Ghibli comes across as more whimper than bang, an excruciatingly simple story about an asthmatic foster child who wishes for a more normal life. Anna — long of neck, short of hair, pointy of chin — is a sour, sickly …
What may wind up being the final film from Studio Ghibli comes across as more whimper than bang, an excruciatingly simple story about an asthmatic foster child who wishes for a more normal life. Anna — long of neck, short of hair, pointy of chin — is a sour, sickly …
This time around, Michael Moore is playing it conspicuously safe, inviting America to tag along on a paid vacation in which the clearly run-down rapscallion barely breaks a sweat when pointing out just how much better the quality of life is everywhere else on the planet. The documentary superstar takes …
Noah Baumbach is still swinging away at generational divides (The Squid and the Whale) and the plight of the artist (Frances Ha), but here, he trades in his rapier for a foam rubber cudgel. Open on Naomi Watts forgetting the plot of The Three Little Pigs and crying "What the …
Remember that dog pound scene in Lady and the Tramp? How it taught you about helplessness in the face of brutal authority, and the capriciousness of life? (They even slipped in a philosophical Russian!) Well, what if instead, the impounded pooches ROSE UP and REBELLED? This is that. Fatalism is …
On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese spent the last 30 minutes of her life being raped and stabbed to death while 38 New Yorkers famously exercised their rights to be apathetic onlookers by pulling down the shades and cranking the volume on their television sets. The Witness sheds precious little …
Chinese remake of the Korean film Blind.
It’s cinema as anthropology in what can only be described as a true American horror story. Wanting nothing more than to shelter their brood from the perils of a society gone mad, a domineering father and his acquiescent spouse imprison the kids, raising them on a steady diet of Hollywood …