Steven Spielberg goes back through the future with the story of Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan, looking not unlike a young version of the director), a Willy Wonka for his time. He’s a poor kid from the stacks in 2045 Columbus, but he’s super-good at gaming, so there’s hope that he’ll …
Steven Spielberg goes back through the future with the story of Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan, looking not unlike a young version of the director), a Willy Wonka for his time. He’s a poor kid from the stacks in 2045 Columbus, but he’s super-good at gaming, so there’s hope that he’ll …
Steven Spielberg goes back through the future with the story of Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan, looking not unlike a young version of the director), a Willy Wonka for his time. He’s a poor kid from the stacks in 2045 Columbus, but he’s super-good at gaming, so there’s hope that he’ll …
Reality is the name of a little girl in a movie made by a guy who is getting funded by a guy who agrees to fund another guy's movie about murderous televisions, provided that guy can come up with an Oscar-worthy groan for the TVs' victims. That guy's wife is …
Writer-director Danny Strong’s JD Salinger biopic stands rather unfortunately to last year’s Coming Through the Rye as the Truman Capote biopic Infamous stood to Capote. That is to say, it’s not without its charms and solid observations about the perils and passions of the writerly life, but it’s too blunt, …
Amiable, empty-headed, tender-hearted geriaction flick about a retired agent (Bruce Willis) whose lady love (Mary-Louise Parker) and best buddy (John Malkovich) think he needs to get back in the game. (She thinks he's a little bit boring as a civilian; he thinks their lives are in danger. They're both right.) …
The latest from sensitive thug Jason Statham doesn't lack for ambition. Yes, there is plenty of arm-twisting and face-punching and general badassery. But there's also London's Chinese underworld, London's Russian underworld, human trafficking of various kinds, war crimes, self-treated PTSD, a nun on the run from her past and herself, …
Lurid but not quite trashy thriller from director Francis Lawrence, who puts his Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence through trials that never made it into their previous, PG-13 collaboration. It’s not just the rape and torture — though there is that, along with a nude scene that serves nicely as …
Lurid but not quite trashy thriller from director Francis Lawrence, who puts his Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence through trials that never made it into their previous, PG-13 collaboration. It’s not just the rape and torture — though there is that, along with a nude scene that serves nicely as …
Producer George Lucas’s passion project about the Tuskegee airmen is competent but not ambitious. It ought to be ambitious. The dogfights, exciting as they are, take up half the screen time and nearly all of the drama. But it’s the battle on the ground — against a military that accepted …
If you’re going to strip away the dialogue from your animated castaway story and then use it to tell a bare-bones (hollow-shell?) fairy tale, you had best be offering some arresting visuals. And also maybe some stirring personal relationships. And a little quiet comic relief might be nice. Happily, director …
There’s just enough of a movie here to sustain the working out of its splendid central dynamic: the sick relationship between a bad man and a devoted enabler. The bad man in question is very bad indeed, the self-described “Lord of Death” Dracula (Nicolas Cage, deadpanning Bela Lugosi to great …
Old man paints young boobs. Well, not the boobs themselves, but rather, pictures of the boobs. Also, the young lady attached to them (a tempramental Christa Theret). Of course, when the old man is Renoir, and the setting is the impossibly beautiful French countryside, the enterprise feels a bit classier. …
Rich schlub who's looking for a change (Kevin Corrigan, low-key) meets cash-needy fitness guru who's looking to step up (Guy Pearce, high strung). At their point of intersection stands (runs?) a beautiful, clever, relentless, sincere trainer (Cobie Smulders, mercurial). Writer-director Andrew Bujalski has capitalized on the lo-fi triumph of oddball …
Early on in director and co-writer Alejandro González Iñárritu’s small-scale epic, frontiersman Hugh Glass (played with almost frightening commitment by Leonardo DiCaprio) learns the hard way that if you get too near a mother bear’s cubs, she will have at you. And even if — through some astonishing combination of …