Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald’s parents didn’t just plan for her—they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare…
Eddie Murphy is Evan, a Denver investment consultant with a workaholic schedule that leaves little space for 7-year-old daughter Olivia…
Hitoshi Matsumoto, half of a legendary Japanese comic duo, debuts as a big-screen director/star with this goof on the rubber-monster…
Often a drifting virtuoso in the years before finding his Spider-Man gig, with Drag Me to Hell director Sam Raimi…
Technophobic predictions, the Terminator movies sell tickets by promising this decade’s model of killing machine: the classic V8 1984 Schwarzenegger;…
The fado is a dolorous folksong tradition from Portugal, first sung in the early 19th century by barefoot peasants mending…
Brendan “Kids’ Choice” Fraser returns to the multiplex day-care as Mo Folchart, antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer and member of a race of “Silvertongues”—those…
The Rodriguez kids, spread far from their native Chicago, reunite for Xmas under the roof of their voluminous burgher patriarch…
Even if you don’t know the name, you’ll recognize Robert Davi’s slightly corroded handsomeness and shiny, bottomless eyes. The ubiquitous…
The great American student-government election: Teenagers exposing their fragile egos to public ballot-box rejection and spending a small fortune on…
Leaving Milwaukee to tell an indigenous tale of life on India’s west coast, director/DP Chris Smith inevitably brings an outsider’s…
What do you have to do to get your career revoked in England, short of being Gary Glitter? After a…
In my day, you had to visit a dozen Blockbusters to find a ratty copy of The Decline of Western…
On the remote Uruguayan seaside, Alex’s parents have sequestered their daughter, hoping to keep her secret hidden from the world….
American Beauty scribe Alan Ball makes his dreaded feature-directing debut with another tale of suburban purgatory, featuring yet another erotically…
Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven wears current events on its sleeve, feeling out the state of German-Turkish relationships as…
This scattershot documentary recapitulates vintage Beauty Myth trumpery: Beauty standards make us average frumps miserable and are the conspiratorial invention…
The camaraderie of the undesired: Invisible to everyone else, pinched, late-blooming Marie (Pauline Acquart) pairs with Anne (Louise Blachère), a…
A mixtape of clichés. Writer-director Jonathan Levine takes cuts from a dozen or more “life-affirming” coming-of-age melodramas and sets them…
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s sports documentary concerns a phenomenon proliferated by the broadband age: premature national sports stardom at the…
