Drama Rated PG-13
“…like watching James Stewart smile his way through The Lost Weekend.
“…rife with soap-opera simplicities, yet Ferrera’s plucky smile and Tamblyn’s sardonic sneer manage to redeem them.
A quiet and engaging little character study from writer-director Thomas McCarthy. Veteran actor Richard Jenkins gets a lead role (but remains appropriately humble) as Walter Vale, a closed-off professor and widower who makes a rare visit from his suburban home to his New York City apartment and discovers an illegal-immigrant couple (Haaz Sleiman and Danai
Drama Rated R
"Slouching at the opera and frequently adjusting her elaborate costumes, Argento mostly appears bored."
Hardly the nostalgic romance it was promoted as being, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is about the fleeting nature of happiness, the struggle of life and the inevitability of death. It’s told with generosity and warmth, true, yet even the comfort it offers is the sort usually found next to hospital beds or in
“It’s like three movies – about a single book – in one.
Everyone in The Wackness tries so very, very hard to be risqué that there isn’t a moment in which the movie isn’t posturing. Centered on a recent high-school graduate selling marijuana in 1994 New York City, The Wackness stars Josh Peck, desperately trying to shed his kiddie image from Nickelodeon’s “Drake & Josh.” As Luke
Deeply affecting and admirably even-keeled, the cancer drama 50/50 avoids both bitter disconsolation and false inspiration to come up with something that’s honest, clear-eyed and, well, a lot like being there. This authenticity probably comes from the fact that screenwriter Will Reiser based the story on his own life-threatening bout with cancer – though it’s
Drama Rated NR
Frank Sinatra plays Frankie Machine, a card dealer and recovering heroin addict who is returning to his old neighborhood after a stint in rehab. Sinatra’s “cold turkey” scenes – the usual shivering and moaning – aren’t as impressive as his smooth inhabiting of a hep cat with a heart, not an arm, of gold. Frankie
An extraordinary adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about a young Iranian woman coming of age in the 1970s and ’80s. Although Satrapi experienced the Iranian Revolution, the resulting Islamic fundamentalist government and a stint in Vienna to escape all the turmoil, Persepolis eschews outright politicizing and stands as a personal story first and foremost.
