D-Day

A documentary about the Normandy invasion, from the PBS series The American Experience. more...

D.O.A.

Documentarian Lech Kowalski had the good fortune to be pointing his camera at one of the great cultural train wrecks of the postwar era: the Sex Pistols' ill-advised weeklong tour of the American south in January 1978, an experience so tense and dismal the band split up after the last show. more...

• by J.R. Jones

D.O.A.

A clever but not particularly memorable film noir (1949), directed by the great cinematographer Rudolph Mate (who photographed Dreyer's Vampyr and McCarey's Love Affair, among many other important films). more...

• by Don Druker

D Tour

Jim Granato directed this 2008 documentary about Rogue Wave drummer Pat Spurgeon's search for a living kidney donor. more...

The D Word

A lame parody of Showtime's hit The L Word, this video collects six shorts united by their willingness to pound a joke into the ground. more...

• by Andrea Gronvall

D.I.N.K.s (Double Income No Kids)

An outspoken couple without children are ostracized by their pro-family neighbors in this locally shot comedy. more...

• Tags: Comedy

D.I.N.K.s (Double Income, No Kids)

In this comedy by Robert Alaniz, a freelance journalist rises to political prominence after writing about discrimination against married, childless couples. more...

• Tags: Comedy

Da

Hugh Leonard's adaptation of his autobiographical play of the same title, partially based in turn on his book Home Before Night, offers a charming mix of childhood memoir and speculative wish fulfillment. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown's mega-selling novel might have made a great ten-hour miniseries: its elaborate riddles and clues could have been properly teased, the cliff-hangers savored, and the sudsy relationships given an appropriately vulgar treatment. more...

• by Andrea Gronvall

Daddy and Papa

This 2002 documentary by Johnny Symons looks at four gay couples, among them himself and his partner, adopting children. more...

• by Joshua Katzman

Daddy Day Camp

Like its methane-filled outhouse that explodes right on cue, this sequel to Daddy Day Care (2003) smells. more...

• by Andrea Gronvall

Free

Daddy Day Care (PG)

Eddie Murphy, who used to score points off Bill Cosby and Mr. Rogers, enlarged his profitable new sideline as a kiddie matinee idol (Dr. Dolittle) with this innocuous 2003 comedy about a marketing executive who gets laid off and decides to open a home day-care facility. more...

• by J.R. Jones

Daddy-Long-Legs

Mary Pickford plays a 12-year-old orphan who grows up to fall in love with her wealthy guardian (Mahlon Hamilton) in this 1919 comedy-drama directed by Marshall Neilan—a film remade in 1931 with Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter and in 1955 with Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire. more...

Daddy Long Legs

Jean Negulesco, master of forgettable 20th Century-Fox wide-screen comedies (Three Coins in the Fountain, How to Marry a Millionaire), puts Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron through their paces in this languid 1955 musical-romance about a playboy who puts a French waif through school, but doesn't meet her until she's a grown-up knockout. more...

• by Don Druker

Critic's Choice

Daddy Longlegs

Ronald Bronstein, who wrote and directed the disquieting indie Frownland, steps in front of the cameras for this similarly lo-fi drama, and his loose-limbed performance as the brash, irresponsible father of two young boys establishes him as a genuine triple threat. more...

• by J.R. Jones
• Tags: Comedy drama