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Oct 26, 1985
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Adapting David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago, screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue have done an admirable job of turning an unfilmable piece into a polished commercial product (1986), yet so much of the flavor of the original has been lost that you wonder why they bothered with the Mamet in the first place.
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Feb 14, 2014
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David Mamet disowned About Last Night . . .
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Oct 31, 2013
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Upon reaching adulthood, a milquetoast daydreamer (Domhnall Gleeson) learns that he can travel through his own past and uses this power to seduce the perfect woman (Rachel McAdams), perform secret favors for his friends, and spend more time with his dear old dad (Bill Nighy, suggesting Jack Lemmon at his most cloying).
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Jun 12, 2012
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Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) imagines the great moral leader of American history as an action hero.
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May 21, 2012
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Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) imagines the great moral leader of American history as an action hero.
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Jul 21, 2016
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The chaotic party girls of the beloved BBC sitcom return one more time, before arthritis sets in.
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Jan 24, 2019
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Shot in Chicago and on Northwestern University's Evanston campus, this speculative political thriller stumbles through most of its first hour, during which a disgraced former national security analyst (Tika Sumpter) comes out of retirement to accept a distinguished academic appointment, only to arouse protests and attract the sinister attention of a furtive graduate student (Ben Tavassoli).
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Oct 13, 2016
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Flashbacks scattered throughout this crime thriller show an autistic boy being harshly raised by a military father; years later the child, a mathematical savant, has grown up into a "black money" specialist for various underworld figures and also a trained killer (he compulsively finishes off every victim with a double head shot).
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Sep 16, 2013
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TV veteran Stu Zicherman directed this middling comedy about a restaurateur (Adam Scott) whose parents divorced when he was nine years old, leaving him with abandonment issues and a fear of commitment.
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Mar 30, 2018
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Taraji P. Henson, who could freeze water with her stare, plays a woman driven to violent extremes by the man in her life, a charming but no-account inventor played by Lyriq Bent.
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Feb 23, 2012
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Navy SEALs rescue a kidnapped CIA officer in this thriller by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh.
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May 31, 2018
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Johnny Knoxville stars as the owner of a theme park designed to maximize fun, not safety.
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Feb 2, 2012
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Daniel Baldwin stars in this 1999 actioner, as a traumatized fighter pilot ordered on a hi-tech mission to Mexico.
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Dec 20, 2002
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Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze, the writer and director of Being John Malkovich, have teamed up on another zany comedy, approximately two-thirds as good (2002).
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Sep 23, 2014
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In this drama, a married gallery owners has an affair with a painter.
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