Drama Rated NR
“The cinema through Rosebud-colored glasses.”
Drama Rated R
A movie of epic proportions told on a personal scale, My Family follows three generations of Mexican-Americans living in L.A.’s East Side. Director and cowriter Gregory Nava uses the Sanchez family itself as the movie’s protagonist, and the result is a full-bodied portrait of an entire clan. That said, special notice should go to Jimmy
Drama Rated PG-13
It may be true that the best movie romances are always bittersweet, but this Clint Eastwood effort goes so far beyond bittersweet it’s downright depressing. Based on Robert James Waller’s best-seller, the movie traces a four-day affair between a National Geographic photographer on assignment (Eastwood) and an unsatisfied Iowa housewife (Meryl Streep, breathing real life
Drama Rated PG
As Kate Armstrong, a no-nonsense chef at a chic New York restaurant, Catherine Zeta-Jones crimps her lips and fastidiously straightens her apron, yet the mannerisms come off as yet another contrivance in a picture full of them. Equally annoying is Aaron Eckhart as Kate’s new sous chef. Blaring opera in the kitchen and talking to
“…only captivates when Forman and his production designers echo some of the painter’s more famous tableaus.
"…focuses on a pervert who thinks he’s a romantic. The more sincere this guy gets about his leering, the more he creeps you out."
When a movie’s press material spends as much time insisting that the film means something as the material for Demonlover does, it’s a pretty good indication that the picture in question is meaningless. Demonlover, from French director and critical darling Olivier Assayas, isn’t quite that empty. Its flimsy narrative thread – involving a pending merger
In this bitter, bracing drama, Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger – both excellent – play Ted and Marion Cole, a wealthy but miserable married couple struggling to survive the death of their young sons years earlier. She has sunk into a near-coma of grief, while he lashes out via repeated infidelities. It’s not a pretty
Is love anything more than a hormonal impulse? That’s the question posed by Dopamine, an independent drama about an emotionally skeptical computer animator (John Livingston) who won’t admit he may have met the girl of his dreams (Sabrina Lloyd). Perhaps I would have cared more about the answer if Dopamine had brought even an iota
Often fodder for lowbrow horror flicks, Bram Stoker’s classic tale gets the highbrow treatment here. Cult Canadian director Guy Maddin has adapted the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Stoker’s novel for the screen, resulting in a mixture of dance performance and Maddin’s signature, silent-movie style. Maddin’s ghostly black-and-white imagery – punctuated by occasional bursts of
