Documentary Rated R
“The De Palma of De Palma ultimately comes off as the same one behind his movies: a talented filmmaker, but not a deeply introspective one.”
Musical Rated PG-13
An oddly stodgy biography picture of composer and lyricist Cole Porter, De-Lovely follows an aging Porter (Kevin Kline) as he revisits scenes from his life, many re-created as musical numbers. Director Irwin Winkler (Life as a House) fails to give it an ounce of the life of say, Chicago or Moulin Rouge. It’s a curious
Drama Rated NR
“…exquisite, both in its lavish craftsmanship and in the way it captures the acute joy (and pain) of romantic love.”
Drama Rated R
“…the depiction of sex gone awry is sometimes satirical, but mostly it’s closer to tragic.”
Comedy Rated NR
“…freewheelingly captures a traveling carnival’s effects on a small French village.”
Comedy Rated R
“If it sounds Spanish, man, that’s what it is. A Spanish movie.” Or is it? That’s the opening voiceover narration to Casa de mi Padre, a Spanish-language comic-melodrama influenced by Mexican telenovelas, Spaghetti Westerns, grindhouse gore and Will Ferrell farces. The one thing it isn’t, actually, is Spanish. So let’s just say this: Casa de
Director Paul Schrader and star Greg Kinnear turn what could have been a big-screen True Hollywood Story – in this case the life of Hogan’s Heroes star and sex addict Bob Crane – into a fascinating portrait of a tortured personality. The groping on display has the sad desperation of a junkie shooting up in
Drama Rated PG-13
Marion Cotillard undergoes an amazing physical transformation to portray legendary French singer Edith Piaf. By the end, when alcohol and drug abuse have reduced Piaf’s body to wreckage, the young actress looks like Gollum. Emotionally, Cotillard portrays Piaf as a blunt instrument – not unlike her blaring voice, which can feel as if it’s literally
An ambitious expansion of the Godfather saga from Francis Ford Coppola that goes both forward and backward in time. Al Pacino evokes the tragedy of a doomed Shakespearean king as his Michael Corleone begins to sink into the quagmire of his sins, while scenes of the original Don Corleone as a young man (Robert De
"…reveals what Robert De Niro and Al Pacino truly have in common: Neither can say no to a crappy script."