A moody and only slightly spooky animated effort out of Brazil from directors Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, and Gustavo Steinberg (who also co-wrote) that makes good use of its combination of oil-paint backgrounds and precise-pencil characters but rather spectacularly fails to stick the landing. The enemy here is fear, whether …
Subtitle: What if the tomb raider…didn’t want to raid tombs at all? For a while, it looked like director Roar Uthaug was going to deliver a video game movie that transcended the genre, mostly through the neat trick of having his ass-kicking heroine be driven by the thoroughly human desire …
Subtitle: What if the tomb raider…didn’t want to raid tombs at all? For a while, it looked like director Roar Uthaug was going to deliver a video game movie that transcended the genre, mostly through the neat trick of having his ass-kicking heroine be driven by the thoroughly human desire …
Subtitle: What if the tomb raider…didn’t want to raid tombs at all? For a while, it looked like director Roar Uthaug was going to deliver a video game movie that transcended the genre, mostly through the neat trick of having his ass-kicking heroine be driven by the thoroughly human desire …
“This is sacred to me,” says homoerotic draftsman Touko Laaksonen to a bookbinder who hesitates on religious grounds in this fulsome biopic from director Dome Karukoski. But what “this” is isn’t entirely clear. The carefully rendered images of wildly exaggerated men having sex with each other? The profitable dissemination of …
Hey kids! The world is in trouble! You know what it needs? Optimists! Hopers! Dreamers! Fixers! And most of all, Specials! You know, the genius inventors (identifiable by their DNA and can-do spirit) who could solve everything if the rest of us would just get out of the way and …
At first blush, Woody Allen's latest entry into his grand European tour bears a close resemblance to Monica, the character played by Ellen Page in the film: very pretty to look at and just smart enough to suggest hidden depths, but ultimately a trifle shallow and self-centered. Unlike Monica, however, …
Director Terrence Malick turns his camera on the transcendent character of love - an admittedly difficult trick. Love isn't as easy to catch on film as, say, lovers (Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko). But Malick has an eye for turning external landscapes into signposts of the interior life: the island …
Somewhat infuriating ode to (as opposed to exploration of) the relationship between artistic genius and insanity. Katie Holmes is Carla; she writes poems about the sun. Luke Kirby is Marco; he writes poems about the moon. They're...troubled. They both have loving parents who want to help them, but what does …
A self-centered fund manager (Yoo Gong) learns what it takes to be a good father during a South Korean zombie outbreak in this terrific, mostly trainbound thriller. It starts, unsurprisingly, with getting over that “self-centered” bit and paying attention: to your kid, to your mom, to your fellow passengers — …
If you're a fan of "Oh no she din't!" sex talk/antics and grade-A deadpanning from basketball superstar LeBron James, you're in for a treat. Otherwise, this is a deeply lazy and sentimental raunch comedy from director Judd Apatow and writer-star Amy Schumer. Basically, a marshmallow covered with bodily fluids. Lazy: …
"People fear what they don't understand," drowsily intones Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp), a scientific genius who is uploaded to the Internet after his body gets taken out by a bunch of neo-Luddite radicals. True enough, Doc! You know what else they fear? Omniscient, omnipresent entities that can control all …