Abandon

Stephen Gaghan, who scripted this turkey, landed in the director's chair after Edward Zwick (Glory) bailed out, and you can almost smell the flop sweat. more...

• by J.R. Jones

Abandoned

Arpad Sopsits's latest film unfolds in familiar territory—a Stalinist orphanage whose institutionalized hopelessness can stand for any authoritarian regime's—and in a few short months the prepubescent hero accumulates as much psychological baggage as if he'd endured decades of repression. more...

• by Ronnie Scheib

The Abandoned

Horror film about a woman adopted at birth who returns to her family home in Russia only to find it haunted. more...

ABBA: The Movie

The Swedish pop quartet tours Australia in this 1977 documentary, an early effort by Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules, Chocolat). more...

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (NR)

Abbott and Costello were never known for their quality control, but once the comedy duo launched their successful TV series in 1952, their theatrical features really hit the skids. more...

• by J.R. Jones
• Tags: Comedy

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Late A and C meet-up entry, with the boys encountering the split-level psycho (Boris Karloff) in London as part of a cops-in-training junket; Charles Lamont directed (1953). more...

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (NR)

Bud and Lou as two delivery men with an oblong package for Frankenstein's castle. more...

• by Dave Kehr
• Tags: Comedy

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Bud Abbott, probably the sharpest straight man in movie history, was badly alcoholic and almost as pudgy as his partner by the time they made this rote horror comedy (1955), their last for Universal. more...

• by J.R. Jones

ABC Africa

The most accessible film to date by Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, though some have been scared away (unwarrantedly, in my opinion) by its subject matter: the many Ugandan children orphaned by AIDS. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

ABCD

Two Indian-American siblings living in New York City try to navigate between old-world expectations and the values of their non-Asian peers in this 1999 family drama by Krutin Patel. more...

• by Ted Shen

New

Abdia do Nasciemento

The subject of this 2011 Brazilian documentary was an early demonstrator for Afro-Brazilian civil rights, the founder of the enormously influential Black Experimental Theater (founded in the 40s), a professor at many prominent American universities (including Wesleyan and Yale), a senator, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. more...

• by Tal Rosenberg
• Tags: Documentary

Abduction (PG-13)

Teen idol Taylor Lautner (Twilight) stars in John Singleton's thriller about a young man who realizes he was abducted as a child. more...

• Tags: Thriller

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