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A sizzling cast and their director do a crackerjack job of nailing the look and feel of New York City's bad old days of internal corruption and outer rot.
Crammed with grainy, shot-on-the-fly mid-Eighties video footage, recent interviews, and a genuine love for its subject, American Hardcore encapsulates a largely forgotten moment in maximum rock & roll history.
A satanic-possession thriller set in 1817 stars Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek – to little avail.
Under Seattle's sorrowful skies, an ex-con struggles to build a clean life with a 14-year-old son in tow. Their life is one of rent-by-the-week flophouses, mattresses on the floor, cab drivers, petty thieves, and teens who ...
Why Tony Kaye was so eager to have his name taken off this film (and replaced with “Humpty Dumpty”) is a question only Kaye can answer, and not very well if the recent spate of elliptical ...
Youths hit the road in this rambling epic
It's all about the hair, the performances, and the grift and graft in this unpredictable new offering from David O. Russell.
Everyone knows this is nowhere, this world of minimum-wage jobs, stultifying labor, and dead ends. Another day, another meal, and we keep coming back for more of the same- not by choice, not by habit, but ...
Tom Cruise is a pilot who becomes embroiled in the Iran/Contra scandal
The plastic surgery performed in this horror film gives real meaning to going under the knife.
Olmos delivers a stark and unflinching study of the self-destructive perpetuation of violence, crime, and gang warfare in the Hispanic-American community.
For every big-dreaming nebbish whose pursuit of filmmaking glory lands him at the Oscars with Sarah Polley at his side, there are hundreds whose experience is more like that of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin's Mark Borchardt. Hunched ...
“Bad is good again,” reads this tweener Western's marketing tagline. Nope, sorry gang, bad was never good, and American Outlaws is much, much worse. I'd like nothing more than to be able to relay that the ...
Philip Roth's beloved book hits the screen
What hath Porky's wrought? This new, faster version of the semi-classic teen sex farce is a howler, bawdy yet constrained within its gross gridlock. It's as if the final print of Fast Times at Ridgemont ...
As everyone knows, it just wouldn't be summer without a teen sex farce, and this randy sequel to Paul Weitz's 1999 smash fits the bill to a T-back. Actually, it's the only thing out there right ...
Twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes, who, in their previous films, Menace II Society and Dead Presidents, resisted the temptation to re-create the modern myths of the urban black ghettos yet maintained their commitment to honest, ...
Don't believe the hype: American Psycho is no more “the most disgusting film of the year” (as dodgy Brit tabloid News of the World tagged it) than it is the wittiest. Instead, it falls somewhere in ...
Thirteen years after American Pie jump-started sexual innuendo for a new generation, this sequel is the best one in the series.
Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper tell Chris Kyle's war story.
At the center of its uniquely beating heart, American Splendor is a heartfelt valentine to Everymen (and Women) everywhere
A princess, jock, rebel, heartthrob, and geek: It could be The Breakfast Club, but American Teen is instead a documentary that ducks the consequences of its own making.
The rants of the late, great stand-up comic Bill Hicks sound as fresh and brilliant as ever.
This stoner action rom-com stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart
Kurt Warner biopic is too winsome to win big
This moving message film tells a story about a miscarriage of Texas justice.
Jesse Dylan’s first feature was the ganja-infused comedy How High, which, while not exactly a high-bongwater mark in the annals of stoner merriment, managed to keep my dog fixated on the TV screen the other day, ...
Sienna Miller pulls pages from a journal of loss in small town
George Clooney stars in this thoughtful thriller from the director of Control, the biopic about Joy Division's Ian Curtis.
Inspirational documentary is about Americans with true grit working in a land where seldom is heard a discouraging word.