The sequel begins right where the first part left off: with Dad’s casual bombshell that if his son can play in the basement LEGO paradise, then so can the son’s younger sister. Cue the arrival of the adorable Duplo destructors, and hello, new central conflict! You might even say that …
The sequel begins right where the first part left off: with Dad’s casual bombshell that if his son can play in the basement LEGO paradise, then so can the son’s younger sister. Cue the arrival of the adorable Duplo destructors, and hello, new central conflict! You might even say that …
The sequel begins right where the first part left off: with Dad’s casual bombshell that if his son can play in the basement LEGO paradise, then so can the son’s younger sister. Cue the arrival of the adorable Duplo destructors, and hello, new central conflict! You might even say that …
Sincere story of answered prayers, mostly those of one Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), an ex-con who tastes mercy and tries to break free from his criminal past (he stole a loaf of bread). But the reformed man is pursued by Javert (Russell Crowe), a lawman who does not believe reform …
There is very little to feel good about in this documentary on the disastrous attempt by the City of Philadelphia to forcibly evict members of the black liberation organization MOVE from their row house on Osage avenue in May of 1985. Except maybe this: director Jason Osder’s organizing principle for …
Ain't no "will they or won't they" like a "will they or won't they" about a couple of Brits (Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan) spending a weekend in Paris, precisely 30 years after their honeymoon visit to the City of Light. It turns out the problem with going on vacation …
Steve James's celebratory documentary about popular, populist film critic Roger Ebert shares a title with Ebert's 2011 memoir, but is able to go where the book was not: to the end of life itself. Ebert is unexpectedly hospitalized almost at the outset of production, and it turns out to be …
If Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's novel had been nothing more than the story of a teenaged boy who survives a shipwreck only to find he must share his lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, it might have been a very fine - and often visually astonishing - adventure movie. …
Director and co-writer Robert Eggers continues the unpleasant but gripping work he began with his debut The Witch, or at least the aspect of it that has to do with taking the measure of a man. Then, the sins of a father were visited upon his children after he let …
The trouble with Jon Favreau’s “photo-real” — as opposed to “live action” — remake of the studio’s animated super-smash hit is there right at the outset, in the shot-for-shot copy of the opening scene. As the sun rises over the African plains, all the animals who inhabit the pride lands …
The trouble with Jon Favreau’s “photo-real” — as opposed to “live action” — remake of the studio’s animated super-smash hit is there right at the outset, in the shot-for-shot copy of the opening scene. As the sun rises over the African plains, all the animals who inhabit the pride lands …
The trouble with Jon Favreau’s “photo-real” — as opposed to “live action” — remake of the studio’s animated super-smash hit is there right at the outset, in the shot-for-shot copy of the opening scene. As the sun rises over the African plains, all the animals who inhabit the pride lands …
The trouble with Jon Favreau’s “photo-real” — as opposed to “live action” — remake of the studio’s animated super-smash hit is there right at the outset, in the shot-for-shot copy of the opening scene. As the sun rises over the African plains, all the animals who inhabit the pride lands …