Drama Rated PG-13
"Because it tackles a big topic and has been made by an important director, critics have positioned this as a defining film. It’s not."
Thriller Rated R
"…cleverly, disconcertingly hushed."
Action/Adventure Rated R
Danny Trejo has been in a lot of movies, but you don’t always get a good look at his face. He usually pops up only briefly in tough-guy bit parts. But in Machete he’s the star, and man does this guy have one gnarled, weather-beaten mug. It’s as if he had a staring contest with
Drama Rated R
You never quite believe the romance – if you can call it that – between Ben Stiller’s abusive, narcissistic New Yorker and Greta Gerwig’s dim, sweet, flake of a Los Angeles personal assistant in this feature from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Yet the movie still works. Baumbach has established himself as an accredited miseryologist (The Squid
Documentary Rated PG-13
“…an enthralling documentary about loneliness, deception and that place where the two often meet: Facebook.
"…a handsome, dutiful adaptation, yet like so many reverent movies based on acclaimed books, it’s lifeless."
“…alternately swells your heart and punctures it.
The Best Foreign Language Film winner at this year’s Oscars plays Wednesday at the Beverly Arts Center.
Comedy Rated PG-13
“At any moment, the movie will press its own pause button, abandon the plot and take off on some deranged comic tangent.
Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13
“A textbook case of Hollywood chauvinism.
