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Sep 26, 2019
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An animated family film about a Yeti trying to return home.
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Feb 9, 2012
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If you've seen Michael Mann's The Insider (1999), you won't be surprised by much of this documentary about the civil action suit filed against the U.S. tobacco industry in the 1990s.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Terry Gilliam's third fantasy feature (1989) may not achieve all it reaches for, but it goes beyond Time Bandits and Brazil in its play with space and time, and as a children's picture it offers a fresh and exciting alternative to the Disney stranglehold on the market.
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Dec 22, 2011
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Whenever Steven Spielberg works in his self-conscious blockbuster mode—as in the Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park movies--his action sequences are staged with such precision that they feel like the work of a sophisticated computer program.
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Dec 22, 2011
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Whenever Steven Spielberg works in his self-conscious blockbuster mode—as in the Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park movies--his action sequences are staged with such precision that they feel like the work of a sophisticated computer program.
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Dec 22, 2011
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Whenever Steven Spielberg works in his self-conscious blockbuster mode—as in the Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park movies--his action sequences are staged with such precision that they feel like the work of a sophisticated computer program.
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Dec 23, 2011
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Whenever Steven Spielberg works in his self-conscious blockbuster mode—as in the Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park movies--his action sequences are staged with such precision that they feel like the work of a sophisticated computer program.
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Feb 1, 1987
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Leo McCarey's 1957 remake of his 1939 masterpiece Love Affair, coscripted with Delmer Daves and shot in color and 'Scope, is his last great film—a tearjerker with comic interludes and cosmic undertones that fully earns both its tears and its laughs, despite some kitschy notions about art and a couple of truly dreadful sequences.
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Aug 1, 2012
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John Huston's odyssey theme reprised as comedy (1951), as Humphrey Bogart cavorts like a monkey and Katharine Hepburn exploits a latent strain of Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Aug 22, 2019
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Isabel (Michelle Williams) is an American aid worker at an orphanage in Kolkata who travels to New York at the behest of a media mogul, Theresa (Julianne Moore), who is selling her company and dangling a $2 million donation.
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- by Leah Pickett
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Tags: Drama
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Oct 26, 1985
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Martin Scorsese's ambitious and sumptuous 1993 film version of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel about New York society in the 1870s manages to be both personal and true to its source, though it never quite comes together.
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Jan 18, 1985
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An old Paramount programmer, Hall Bartlett's Zero Hour (1957), remade in 1980 as a sketch comedy by writer-directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker (Top Secret!, Ruthless People).
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Apr 28, 2006
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Coming on the heels of Spellbound and Bee Season, this small gem (2006) about a South Central LA girl with a gift for spelling restores luster to the family genre.
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- by Andrea Gronvall
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Tags: Drama
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May 23, 2019
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Guy Ritchie directs Disney's live-action remake of the 1992 animated film.
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Sep 23, 2014
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A young kid and his family endure a string of unlucky circumstances in this family comedy directed by Miguel Arteta.
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