J.A. Martin, Photographer

A Quebecois film with an art-circuit reputation, about a photographer who takes his wife on a journey across Canada. more...

J.C.

New-model Jesus, reborn to a Christian fundamentalist family, sets out on an LSD-inspired mission to save the world for peace-loving biker hippies. more...

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J. Edgar (R)

Leonardo DiCaprio packs on the pounds and the prosthetics to play J. Edgar Hoover over a span of more than 50 years, and his feverish commitment to the role propels this long, ambitious, sometimes unwieldy biopic. more...

• by J.R. Jones
• Tags: Biography, Historical Drama

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An engrossing two-hour video documentary portrait (1995) by Chicago filmmaker Dennis Mueller. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jaan-E-Maan

Bollywood romance about a womanizing college student, written and directed by Shirish Kunder. more...

Jab We Met

Shahid Kapur and Kareena Kapoor star as strangers who get stranded at a remote train station and must journey through northern India together. more...

Jabberwocky

A grim, violent comedy (1977) set in medieval England, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Michael Palin as a country bumpkin come to the big city to seek his fortune. more...

• by Dave Kehr

J'accuse

Abel Gance remakes his own melodramatic silent epic about World War I, which focuses on a menage a trois. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jack and Jill (PG)

Adam Sandler plays the title characters, a nice guy and his wacky twin sister. more...

• Tags: Comedy

The Jack Bull

A made-for-TV western starring John Cusack, written by his father, Dick Cusack. more...

Jack Frost

Jack (Michael Keaton), front man of an up-and-coming band, tends to miss his son's hockey games. more...

• by Lisa Alspector

Jack Goes Boating (R)

A lumpish limousine driver (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is introduced by his married friends (John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega) to a forthright office drone (Amy Ryan), and their friendship gradually deepens into ugly-duckling romance even as the married couple drifts apart. more...

• by J.R. Jones
• Tags: Romantic comedy

Jack Reacher (PG-13)

Tom Cruise is the title character, a reclusive former military officer who comes out of hiding to help investigate a mysterious mass shooting. more...

• by Ben Sachs
• Tags: Action, Thriller

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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

“Maria Montez gave socialistic answers to a rented world,” declared underground filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist Jack Smith (1932-'89) in a statement that was reportedly printed and handed out at his funeral. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jack Smith Shorts and Jack Smith as Seen by Ken Jacobs

A two-hour program stretching from the 50s to the 70s, most of it films by Ken Jacobs featuring Jack Smith as a performer: in The Death of P'Town: Fragment of a Movie That Never Was (1961) Smith cavorts in a cemetery; in Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice and Little Cobra Dance (both 1957) he cavorts in drag for kids and cops in Tribeca; in Little Stabs at Happiness (1962) he nibbles on a doll and a balloon, the latter while dressed as a harlequin; excerpts from Jacobs's unfinished magnum opus Star Spangled to Death (1962) feature more kids and some extended play with a Rockefeller-for-governor poster. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum