Hi-yo, Silver, stay away! Johnny Depp stars as Tonto, the vengeful Native clown without a tribe, in a film that is inexplicably named after his sidekick (Armie Hammer). Well, perhaps not inexplicably: the white man often gets top billing in these buddy pics. Still, it's Tonto who gets the backstory, …
The Passion of the SEAL. Peter Berg, having humiliated the American military by involving it in the ludicrous nonsense of Battleship, attempts to make up for it by telling the (based-on-a-true) story of a four-man mission gone very bad in Afghanistan. The desired response to the action onscreen seems to …
Oz Perkins’ adventure in toxic family dynamics — toxic in a way that results in copious quantities of spilled blood — hits so many of the beats from Silence of the Lambs that some viewers may wonder if it’s some kind of supernaturally-skewed gloss. It’s not just the green female …
You don't have to be crazy to survive into Italian politics, but Viva La Liberta makes the case that it certainly helps to have a certifiable (but witty) identical twin on hand when things get dicey. Toni Servillo, so mordant and melancholy in last year's brilliant The Great Beauty, here …
Director Jonathan Levine’s mighty, even valiant, but still probably doomed struggle to make a rom-com for the post-Tinder era. So while it’s still a given that people will bang before they feel close enough for something so intimate as a date and a slow dance, there’s sort of a reason …
The story is as simple and clean as the pastel-washed visual compositions in Rémi Chayé’s animated adventure about a Russian nobleteen who sets out to restore her family’s honor by finding the ship her grandfather took on his expedition to the North Pole. And also, she hopes, her grandfather, whose …
Or: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Abortion. Well, okay, not funny, exactly. But it does involve the world’s handsomest pickpocket (Peter Facinelli) fleeing from the world’s most bumbling future chief of police (Michael Madsen) with the world’s prettiest part-time waitress/pregnant paramour (Jaimie Alexander) in tow, before …
Football and Chola live the dream of a dog’s life at the Los Reyes skate park in Santiago, Chile: laying and lolling about, panting and playing and occasionally getting a little attention from the park’s human visitors. No matted mange or scrap-scrounging for these two; just chewing and chasing and …
The Lost City of Z —James Gray’s handsome adaptation of David Gann’s book lops off the subtitle — A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon — in favor of something a little more righteous (but alas, less compelling) than mere obsession: a crusade against European notions of superiority. While …
An exercise in whimsicality that might leave Wes Anderson fatigued. Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon wrote and directed, and they also star as a homeless Frenchman and the hapless Canadienne whose life (and backpack) he infiltrates. (The pair have done this sort of collaboration before, in The Fairy, Rumba, and …
Joachim Trier directs and co-writes a tale of miserable men mutely mourning Mom. Though we open on new dad Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) as he wanders a hospital, halfheartedly seeking food for his bedridden wife before scoping out some ex-sex with a gal accompanying her dying mother, this is actually the …
[Trailer NSFW.] Hardcore French satire. That is, a simultaneously blistering and pitying take on Young People Today from cinematic provocateur Gaspar Noe (Enter the Void) that regularly features erect penises, sexual congress, and ejaculation. Man-behind-the-meat Murphy (Karl Glusman) is a comically self-regarding and immature American film student living in Paris …
Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal play two attractive people who enjoy having sex. But it turns out that while both are nice to look at, neither is particularly appealing. She’s sick and getting sicker, coping with the pain by diagnosing everyone else. He’s an aspiration-addled jerk who’s never said “I …