Monthly Archives: July 2024

The image is so iconic, so striking, and occurs so early in the immaculately realized period piece “The Convert” that you can’t miss its meaning. Guy Pearce, at his most dashing and playing a lay preacher new to a tiny … Continue reading →

I’ve read a few books on the subject, including the most recent scholarship about “Doolittle’s Raid” on Tokyo, one of the more daring American air exploits of World War II. And I distinctly recall the chill that went through my … Continue reading →

Lisa Kudrow and Jemaine Clement’s presence notwithstanding, I’m going to take a wild guess and say this summer’s Taika Waititi Version of Terry Gilliam’s fantasy classic “Time Bandits” could be the 2024 equivalent of George Clooney’s attempted “Catch-22.” The delirious … Continue reading →

“The Champion” is a formulaic Spanish sports melodrama about an athlete with “issues” finding his way back to public favor and his place within “the beautiful game.” It’s not subtle, featuring a rageaholic soccer star whose tantrums are over the … Continue reading →

The later films of David Lean are works of such visual ambition and scale that they can let the viewer lose track of the connective thread, the relationships and characters that make “Bridge on the River Kwai,” “Lawrence of Arabia” … Continue reading →

Oh no, not a superheroine movie. A cheated, abused woman tracks down her most violent childhood friend for…an offer. “We need a proper plan.” “Are you sure you want him actually dead?” Aug 30. UK and US?

Asking for a friend. Endless variations on these adorable teasers, tie-ins and trailers. Too many? Getting there.

Takes a pair of plastic unicorn testicles to make a movie like this, title it like that, and release it Aug. 16. Just saying…mate. Kelly Slater and some surfer dudes and Luke Hemsworth provide the voices.

“MaXXXine” is horror auteur Ti West’s Big Statement on horror, censorship, the hypocrisy in American conservatism and the dog-devour-dog ethos of the struggling classes in Hollywood. A lurid send-up of exploitation cinema of the ’70s (split screens, neon-tinted lighting and … Continue reading →

“Touch” is a lovely, patient romantic melodrama about remembering and pursuing that woman whose gentle caress a man remembers from the first time they met, long ago. This search will take Kristófer from Iceland to London and beyond. Kristófer is … Continue reading →