Wayne Wang’s twentieth motion picture—a story of sisterhood illustrated by the same duo of actresses, playing three generations of themselves in three eras: 1829, 1997, and 2011—is something of a flop. Continue reading
Steven Soderbergh, arguably one of the more interesting (and certainly among the most prolific) of modern American directors, attempts to give the virus-outbreak film a new sheen, but give us nothing much worth talking about, and way too many name-actors doing the talking. Continue reading
Josh Whiteman’s documentary displays the human side of a remarkably private individual whose work traded almost exclusively on the outward appearance of the almost famous. Continue reading
The initially fascinating soon becomes repetitive and banal; there are better documentaries out there about cassette-tape culture, and there are dozens of better ‘audio misadventures’ all over the Internet. Continue reading
The new film by writer-director Andrew Niccol—as much a star vehicle for Justin Timberlake as it is another of the director’s attempts at melding thought-provoking sci-fi to a plausible concrete reality—is a silly, laughably poorly written piece of work. Continue reading
Justin Kurzel’s début feature, a dramatization of Australia’s most notorious serial-murder crime spree, is exceptionally well-crafted but, at its height, ill-advisedly trades palpable suspense for torture-porn. Continue reading
Michael House’s film is a handsomely produced and informative chronicle of the inner and outer life of Monsieur Hulot; an enjoyable appreciation of a man whose idiosyncrasies, it was once said, embody “everything that commercial cinema doesn’t have time or space for.” Continue reading
He may have adored New York City, but with his forty-first feature film—his warmest and most inviting in many years—it’s now clear that Woody Allen probably always wanted to live in Paris in the ’20s (in the rain). Continue reading
Michael Shannon delivers yet another solid performance in Noah Buschel’s functionally flawed but visually arresting neo-noir. It first toured the festival circuit two years ago and is finally being issued on DVD locally. Continue reading
This is a sports movie with more heart and laughs than actual sport, a blend of the tried-and-true high-school sports triumphalism template with the main components of Little Miss Sunshine and Juno. Continue reading
