Dramatic thriller follows the childhood of a fascist World War I leader. Loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre's short story of the same name. Starring Robert Pattinson, Stacy Martin, and Liam Cunningham. DIrected by Brady Corbet.
"As real as it gets." A standup comic deals with death. Documentary directed by Rick Altizer.
Writer-director Mitch Davis's take on the multiple-linked-storylines-holiday-movie, with the link provided by six stalled elevators during a power outage in New York City. Starring, among others, Patrick Stewart and John Heder as guys on the opposite ends of the power spectrum who discover that getting stuck in an elevator really …
Disney's live-action version of the Grimm fairy tale about humble endurance and the joys of ball-going isn't perfect. (For one thing, Helena Bonham Carter's Fairy Godmother is slapsticky and silly in a way befitting wicked stepsisters and no one else. For another, some of the personal and political machinations are …
The Gold of the title is Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize–winning populist food critic for the L.A. Times. The city is Los Angeles, a place that is, in Gold’s words, “less a melting pot than a great, glittering mosaic” whose multitudinous urban centers boast an even more multitudinous array of restaurants, …
A film school thesis project that somehow found its way into general release. Writer-director Stephen Dunn deals his semi-autobiographical debut deck — specifically, a spate of acutely symbolic reoccurring dream sequences — with a heavy hand. Mom (Joanne Kelly) booked early on, leaving young Oscar (Jack Fulton) to fend for …
Angels visit the site of an elementary school hostage crisis.
Like a great many troubled American teenagers, prep-school outcast Jamie Schwartz (Alex Wolff) sees something of himself in Holden Caulfield, the troubled teen protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s landmark novel The Catcher in the Rye. Unlike many troubled American teenagers, he decides to do something about it. Not actually fixing his …
A corpse-whispering sawbones from Nigeria who “exemplifies everything it means to be an American” (Will Smith, giving it his syllable-distending Sidney Poitier best) effectively jerks what could have been a Super Bowl–winning punt out of the place-kicker’s path when he calls into play the scientific burden of evidence needed to …
There is ample photographic evidence that the '70s were not, in fact, the best-looking, coolest decade ever. But you wouldn't know it from watching The Connection, a "loosely based on reality" story about the infamous drug-smuggling operation known as The French Connection, set in — of all places — France. …
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