What do bros (in this case, Robert Redford) do once they get old? In A Walk in the Woods, they get sick of attending funerals, decide to out-hike Death on the Appalachian Trail, and tell the old lady (Emma Thompson) where she can stick her objections to stupidly risking one's …
Writer-director Tobias Lindholm’s latest is a microcosmic and finely wrought war story in which everyone has their reasons. Danish company commander Claus M. Pederson (Pilou Asbæk, looking like a cross between Michael Shannon and Ewan McGregor and nailing the role’s measured intensity) starts leading his unit’s patrols through Helmand province …
Well now, looky here — a fantasy story, heavy on the CGI and based on an existing (video game) property — that somehow doesn’t feel like brand management, fan service, or even boilerplate hackwork. Instead, you’ve got a complicated, unexpected hero in the orc chieftan Durotan, who starts having second …
A date movie for every guy whose girlfriend forced him to watch sparkly vampires fall mopily in love. R (Nicholas Hoult) is a brain-munching zombie who just wants to connect. Julie (Teresa Palmer) is a spunky blonde from the other side of the massive concrete wall her dad built to …
Ben Stiller stars as the standard "citizen who's into community issues because he can't deal with the trouble he's got at home," but he wisely steps aside and gives ownership of the film to Vince Vaughn's "suburban Dad looking for bro-bonding." The Watch is about an overzealous neighborhood watch that …
If you can keep in mind that the whole thing is an Australian tweak of the magic carpet story from The Arabian Nights (boy travels the world and has many adventures before returning home to his father), you can probably enjoy this improbable, episodic, and earnestly entertaining Russell Crowe story …
Hal Holbrook doesn’t quite steal the show as the old-man-remembering version of pretty Robert Pattinson in this love story set in the days when a traveling circus was still enough to inspire wonder. No, the real thief is Christoph Waltz, who gives a monster performance as the circus owner, ringleader, …
Richard Montoya directs the film version of his own play about a pair of handsome Latino brothers — dubbed "Water" and "Power" by their father as children — who have done bad on their way to making good. Water (Enrique Murciano) is a state senator, while Power (Nicholas Gonzalez) is …
Brazilian gay coming-of-age tale, almost quaint in its old-fashioned sweetness and gentle dramatics. Leonardo is a blind boy, and his disability means that he feels the old adolescent tension between dependence and autonomy even more keenly than usual. (Worried Mama is worried all the time.) Giovanna is his loyal best …
Summertime, and the living is horribly painful and awkward, because you're a pouty-slouchy teenager (Liam James) stuck riding in the titular seat of your mom's boyfriend's restored station wagon on the way to his rented beach house for a month of inarticulate misery. Your mom (Toni Collette)? She's lonely and …
Exquisitely observed story of two lightly miserable '80s Stockholm tweens — the impulsive, Mohawked cutie Klara (Mira Grosin) and the more reserved, more androgynous Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) — who make the move from punk fans to punk band, just because they can't stand the racket that another group is making …
Don't see We Are Your Friends for its nonsensical attempt to make Electronic Dance Music into a digital means for conveying the artist's interior anguish. Nor for its silly, Instagram-level aphorisms (no, the best part of anything is not in fact the moment before it starts). Nor for its grab-bag …
A fool for God becomes a fool for love, which amounts to very nearly the same thing in director Rama Burshtein’s winning romance. “If she weren’t so religious, she’d be nearly perfect,” is the party line on Michal (Noa Kooler), and when the party in question is Orthodox Judaism, that’s …
The personal is political in Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kreigman’s fascinating documentary covering former Representative Anthony Weiner’s 2013 campaign for mayor of New York City. Because, as we’re reminded at the outset, the combative congressman was driven to resign his office in the wake of a sexting scandal. But the …
Adult Toy Story. Adult as in, the person playing with the toys is an adult: Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell), an artist who has lost both his memory and his ability to draw following a brutal beating that stems from his drunken barroom admission that he likes to wear women’s shoes. …