More like At Middlington, amirite, fellas? Stolid dramedy that plays like a Boomer fantasy of what Gen Xers must be feeling now that their kids are heading off to college. Vera Farmiga, never less than fascinating, is in full wacky Diane Keaton mode as a free-spirit mom with a Type …
Director David Leitch has already worked on a film that expertly captured the look and feel of the ‘80s (or at least ‘80s movies): the straight-ahead revenge-on-the-Russians gun-show John Wick. He's at it again here, from the contrast of gaudy neon and severe concrete in late-Cold War Berlin, to the …
An attorney without connections, money, or degree — in other words, a desperate man — takes on a desperate case. It's that rarest of things: an attorney who actually believes his client is innocent.
The title of writer-director Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary is, fittingly, more than a little misleading. Its real subject isn’t the literary wunderkind behind the tellingly titled The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things; nor is it the celebrity culture that rushed to acclaim his fervid, fetid stories of youthful misery. Instead, …
For at least the first 50 of its 100 minutes, Andre Øvredal’s coroner horror story is nearly flawless, starting with the opening camera crawl around a bloody crime scene that comes to rest on the partially buried, fully nude body of a beautiful young woman. (Yes, “beautiful” sounds creepy here, …
A person might argue that once you’ve figured out how to download a person’s consciousness into a lab-grown, giant blue superhuman body, you don’t absolutely need to travel across the galaxy to hunt whales that produce minute quantities of stuff that stops human aging. But that person would be missing …
A person might argue that once you’ve figured out how to download a person’s consciousness into a lab-grown, giant blue superhuman body, you don’t absolutely need to travel across the galaxy to hunt whales that produce minute quantities of stuff that stops human aging. But that person would be missing …
A person might argue that once you’ve figured out how to download a person’s consciousness into a lab-grown, giant blue superhuman body, you don’t absolutely need to travel across the galaxy to hunt whales that produce minute quantities of stuff that stops human aging. But that person would be missing …
A labor of love on the part of über-geek director Joss Whedon, if not necessarily a labor of art. The genius here shows not in the story (magic geegaw!), nor in the performances (Mark Ruffalo’s embittered Bruce Banner/Hulk excepted), but in Whedon’s ability to juggle six disparate comic-book heroes while …
Joss Whedon's follow-up to his superheroes-learning-to-get-along hit The Avengers turns out to be more of a follow-through, an enormously dense setup for the sprawling What's Next of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. To wit: there's these Infinity Stones, the most powerful destructive forces in the universe, and someone is out to …
A triumph of sorts. Not of acting: with some notable exceptions — a beer-bellied, tragicomic Chris Hemsworth as Thor among them — a feeling of exhaustion has crept in with a number of the principals over the 10 or so years since Iron Man set this gargantuan, quippy super-opera in …
There is much that needs forgiving in the Russo brothers’ gargantuan final chapter(?) of this particular book of the Marvel Superhero Chronicles, and not just easy stuff like the 160-minute runtime or the overabundance of overlong punch-ups (now with extra energy bolts!) No, there’s also the frequent and annoying matter …
Co-directors Paola DiFlorio and Lisa Leeman take on the daunting task of telling the story of a spiritual man’s material life. Paramahansa Yogananda is probably best known as the author of The Autobiography of a Yogi, and as the Indian Swami who introduced yoga and meditation to mainstream America in …
A hot mess of a philosophical cyber-thriller. The hot is provided by Scarlett Johansson as a government agent (but corporate creation) built from a human brain and a synthetic body, the latter often on quasi-display in a shimmering sort of shell casing that she only occasionally uses as digital camouflage. …
If you want horror to be horrifying — scary, as opposed to simply tense or shocking — then it helps to shine a light into the those real-life dark corners that people would rather not investigate. The Babadook does just that, gazing steadily upon the strained and fraying mother-love that …