Drama Rated R
"…reveals what Robert De Niro and Al Pacino truly have in common: Neither can say no to a crappy script."
Drama Rated PG-13
"These women haven’t only been declawed, they’ve been spayed and neutered."
"Alan Ball’s obsession with the sexuality of teenage girls continues with Towelhead, and you don’t have to be a prude to be alarmed by it."
Drama Rated NR
A science-fiction precursor to the likes of Brazil and Dark City, this silent masterpiece from Fritz Lang is set in a dismal future when nameless workers labor beneath the streets of a towering city. Their toil enables the life of leisure enjoyed by the aristocratic class, who live in the skyscrapers that soar through multiple,
Drama Rated PG
"Keke Palmer has single-handedly saved another feel-good drama from drowning in sap."
This has little of the insinuating nature of the best film noir, as Lana Turner and John Garfield go from 0 to 60 in their first scene together. She plays a simmering housewife; he plays the handyman hired by her husband (Cecil Kellaway). They hardly wait until he leaves the room to plan his murder.
“… perhaps cinema’s most enchanting parable about the misunderstood and alienated artist.”
“…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
