Was this where the shame began? Or rather, where the shame died and the rage began? Was this when it was all over but the shouting? Because it's been shouting ever since. Morton Downey, Jr. was Colbert before Colbert, or maybe Limbaugh before Limbaugh. It's hard to say.
Simon West hasn’t printed one watchable frame of film since setting the bar high with his debut feature, the uproarious Con Air. When it came time to reassemble the dirty half-dozen or so (plus JCVD and Chuck Norris), West’s uncolored staging was just the touch needed to give flight to …
Extremely ambitious and incredibly pretentious. Also false. A brainy, yappy New York boy (Thomas Horn) feels guilty about not answering the WTC calls of his doomed dad (Tom Hanks) on 9/11/01. He walks around New York looking for fishy clues, and a mute, grizzled man (Max von Sydow) tags along …
Scott Hamilton Kennedy spends 16 months hanging around the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and taking pictures of the beautiful young people he finds there. Only it isn't creepy! Because he's investigating their lives, documenting their dreams, plumbing their depths, and generally sussing out what it's like …
Or Marie Antoinette: The Last Four Days. The storming of the Bastille and the final days before the French Revolution as seen from inside the walls of the Palace of Versailles form the basis for the latest feature from French director Benoît Jacquot (A Single Girl, The School of Flesh). …
The cinematic equivalent of scribbling and a waste of the $10,000 it cost to make. For your entertainment pleasure, a gay serial rapist/killer named Chris Fuchman performs acts of oral castration and other atrocities in this godawful alleged satire. Four of the film’s five stars and writers share director’s credit …
For a moment, Shira’s (Hadas Yaron) dream man stands opposite her, a rabbi’s son nervously using the tzitzit sticking out from beneath his vest to polish his specs. All this changes when her older sister dies in childbirth and their mother (Irit Sheleg), desperate to maintain control over her surviving …
Filmmakers follow the lives of several aspiring ballet dancers from around the globe (ages 9 to 19) as they train for the Youth America Grand Prix, a prestigious dance competition in New York City that holds the potential for career stardom. The dancers offer some humanity to the generic storytelling. …
Helene Lee's documentary on the life of Leonard Howell, one of the founders of Rastafarianism and the man who declared Haile Selassie to be the second coming of Christ.
Emily Blunt is so honestly appealing that she saves moments, but nothing can save the film. Director Nicholas Stoller wrote this glib junk with actor Jason Segel, who has many moments of stupid, fumbling vulnerability as a young chef resentful when teacher Blunt outpaces him. Engaged, they push off marriage, …
Lest you have any doubt about why they call it the Rape of Nanking, here is the story of one American man’s attempt to save a group of Chinese schoolgirls from rape at the hands of Japanese invaders in the late ’30s. Subtle, it’s not; but then, war isn’t subtle. …
For better and for worse, this Israeli depiction of the struggle between a Jewish father and his son — both Talmudic scholars, though of decidedly different temperaments — feels like a well-crafted short story. For better: the elegance of plot, the plumbing of character, the reams of intelligent dialogue. For …
Two girls decide to open a phone sex business in order to make rent on their fabulous apartment. Now there's a fantasy.