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Movies this bad don’t often get released anymore, a circumstance that instantly raises the curiosity factor of All That I Need.
A stunning portrait of the life of activist Nan Goldin
Despite an A-list cast and director, it's astonishing how bad this movie is.
Christopher Plummer mesmerizes as the greediest man alive
Newton and Pine as spies and lovers caught in old intrigues
This much-storied and long-in-the-making film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's widely cherished Western novel is neither the sacrilege that McCarthy's true believers feared nor the epiphany for which fans of the Western film genre had hoped. Instead, ...
There’s a Silver Jews song called "Inside the Golden Days of Missing You" that laments the twin states of getting over love and getting over getting over love: "and then the feeling fades away, but you ...
This newest work from steadfast American independent filmmaker, Jon Jost, almost breaks out of his arthouse ghetto and into markedly familiar movie strategies like narrative and performance, making this his most engaging merger of experimental and ...
One-hour lecture on the father of plastics (with added musical numbers!)
Spirited doc traces the rise and fall of Tower Records
Bow Wow plays a National Guard soldier who goes AWOL in the early Nineties in this unfoused drama
Alleluia (2014, 93 min., NR)
A Belgian riff on the pitch-black legend of the Honeymoon Killers
Allied (2016, 124 min., R)
WWII espionage thriller can't hold a candle to Casablanca
Christina Ricci stars in this strained romantic comedy set in the world of renaissance festivals.
Home for the holidays (again)
This sweet, amiable, and knowing coming-of-age tale is Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical boyz-to-men story about how he grew into the role of a rock & roll journalist in 1973.
Oh, bitter irony! Christopher Guest, the great satirist of crap artists (he wrote or co-wrote This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and The Big Picture)) has joined their ranks. And he can't even blame it ...
Doc chronicles one pastor's mission to keep Ukrainian kids off the street
Aloft (2015, 116 min., R)
Jennifer Connelly and Cillian Murphy play an odd and estranged mother and son
Aloha (2015, 105 min., PG-13)
Cameron Crowe parks this rom-com in Hawaii
Alone (2020, 98 min., R)
Neo-slasher is quietly effective and bloodily harsh
There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.
Much like its predecessor, 1997's Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider is an efficient, if overly mechanized, delivery system of thrills 'n' chills, classed up by some narrative sleight of hand and the rock-solid performance ...
Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston date and become more than just friends.
Alpha (2018, 96 min., PG-13)
The first-ever boy and his dog story
This 3-D animated film is about two wolves trying to find their way back to their pack.
Alpha Dog (2007, 115 min., R)
It’s a soggy true-crime drama – too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.
Climbing doc has trouble keeping up with its enigmatic subject
What's it all about, Alvin? This by-the-numbers attempt at a chipmunk revival is not bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
We're wondering if anyone will call the ASPCA if we leave these animated rodents chipwrecked far from civilization.