A Rube Goldberg machine delights because it employs a ridiculously complex mechanism to achieve a thoroughly simple — and ultimately insignificant — result. The insignificance is what makes the complexity funny. So it’s disconcerting, which is a nice way of saying mortifying, when the titular boy genius in Colin Treverrow’s …
I'm guessing this is a documentary about the late teenage years of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Director Janus Metz’ clash of the tennis titans presents its flaws early: amped grandeur (“every match is a life in miniature”), an overbearing soundtrack, too much made of its heroes’ interior lives while too little is revealed about their actual gameplay, and a tendency to tell what it could just …
Disney's True-Life Adventure series has morphed into Disneynature and this is their latest documentary. PANDA ALERT: It looks so cute and sugary that I needed a shot of Insulin to make it through the trailer.
Surprise! Dreamworks’ latest is not simply an exercise in sticking Alec Baldwin’s Scotch-mellowed tycoon’s rasp in the mouth of a CGI infant and chuckling at the juxtaposition. Instead, this story of a boy’s troubles when his baby brother arrives serves as a rousing defense of familial love as a good …
Matt Damon narrates a documentary history of the Boston Marathon.
The life of Bobby Bowden, patriarch of college football's most winning coaching family.
In case you hadn’t been paying attention during the preceding two hours and 15 minutes, director Robin Campillo’s unblinking tale of gay love and AIDS activism in ‘90s Paris culminates by cutting between dramatic political protest and emotionally intense lovemaking. Because for the members of ACT UP, the personal is …
Why all the whining? Put another way, why does Brad (Ben Stiller) spend more time counting other people’s successes than he does taking stock in his own good fortune? Beset by the feeling that his college chums (Michael Sheen, Jermaine Clement, Luke Wilson) are all passing him by, his anxieties …
A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly. Directed and written by S. Craig Zahler, starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Carpenter.
The latest from Cartoon Saloon points up one of the major differences between animation and cartoons. Hit Wile E. Coyote in the face, and by the next scene, all traces of a black eye have disappeared. But those regenerative powers don’t always apply to animated features, as when your lead …
If moviegoers were to vote on the one genre that best embodies the classification of seen-one-seen-’em-all, surfing films would sweep the election. For every Big Wednesday and Riding Giants, there are literally hundreds of vanity docs, the sole fixation of which is to track the perfect wave. Say hello to …
A movie about storytelling that succeeds by keeping its focus on the storyteller. James Pope (Kyle Mooney, who also co-wrote) is a young man who discovers that his entire life has been a fiction. In response, he latches onto the one thing that was “real” — the children’s TV show …
Color-drenched action comedy filmed in Rajasthan, India by writer-director Baoqiang Wang.