Toward the end of her life, Queen Victoria — the Empress of India, despite never having set foot in that country — took an interest in, and eventually befriended, a young Indian clerk sent to attend her golden jubilee. Her Majesty (played here with magnificent, exhausted humanity by Judi Dench) …
With age comes an overall aversion to non-stop carnage and the fountains of red Karo splatter that it brings. But damn if there isn’t a beauty and force behind writer-director Jung Byung-gil’s cartwheeling camerawork that I found irresistible. There was no need to go back for a precise body count …
More than a love letter to Lovecraft, but less than a well-crafted creature feature. If only writer-directors Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie had lavished as much love and attention on plot and structure as they clearly did on production and theme, this supernatural ickfest might have been more than a …
Meditative documentary about a community of Zen Buddhist monks and nuns who have dedicated their lives to mastering the art of mindfulness with their world-famous teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. Marc Francis and Max Pugh direct.
Doug Liman’s small-scale war movie pits two American soldiers (John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the latter looking like Jake Gyllenhaal and talking like Casey Affleck and acquitting himself admirably) against an Iraqi sniper in the pipelined, post-war wasteland. The sniper has the clear advantage: they don’t know where he is, …
Raúl Ruiz veteran director of over 100 features and shorts returns with a comedy structured as a Chilean ensemble of soap operas in which reality does not exist.
The 20th Century Fox fanfare (with CinemaScope addendum) is performed on jungle drums and didgeridoo. Sometimes, a film earns points even before the opening credits hit the screen; other times, a variation on a studio logo is as avant garde as it gets. War's two predecessors handily proved the gimmick …
Korean action film directed by Yoon-chul Chung.
A stand-up comic falls for a funeral home employee in this romantic dramedy.
From Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, the folks who brought us Cowspiracy, comes their latest documentary billed as, "The health film that health organizations don't want you to see."
Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis co-direct this documentary account of the murder of 18-year-old Mike Brown and the global movement it inspired.
It’s happened to all of us at some point, whether riding on a bus, seated in a waiting room, or standing in line. The seemingly harmless-looking person next to you unexpectedly launches into an unhinged stream of consciousness monologue that s/he hopes will pass for conversation. Such is the life …
With Hell or High Water, screenwriter Taylor Sheridan accomplished the neat trick of evoking new empathy for the enduring Native American plight by dovetailing it with the struggles of a modern white man facing foreclosure on the family farm. With Wind River, he takes over directing duties as well, and …