Soderbergh returns with an offbeat heist comedy featuring strong performances, but one that half-grooves and half-plods along.
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Soderbergh returns with an offbeat heist comedy featuring strong performances, but one that half-grooves and half-plods along.
Several men make it their life’s mission to save lives as the Syrian war escalates in this harrowing documentary that is somewhat too reliant on cloyingly manipulative music to deliver the emotions.
Song Kang-ho is superb in this highly-engaging mainstream drama based on the dark history that was the 1980 Gwangju Uprising as a taxi driver unwittingly brings a German reporter to the site.
A girl is forced to dress like a boy in Taliban-occupied Afghanistan to help her family make ends meet in this splendidly animated tale that perhaps relies too much on a parallel account of a mythical fantasy to work.
As admirable as Ridley Scott’s ticking time-bomb decision to recast and reshoot the film is, this is an unexceptional work that struggles to elevate itself despite strong performances by Christopher Plummer and Michelle Williams.
Scott’s follow-up to ‘Prometheus’ is a full-scale R-rated blockbuster that will thrill mainstream adult audiences, maybe even fans, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the sheer filmmaking prowess of the first two ‘Alien’ films.
A naïve teenage girl gives birth but her wily mother has other sinister ideas in this well-directed Mexican drama that is not afraid to go down a morally contentious path.
Shot in nine long takes, this Tunisian drama about systemic failure economically if harrowingly shows us what it feels like to suffer under pervasive toxic masculinity, as a woman on a night out tries to seek justice after being sexually assaulted by several policemen.
Edgar Wright’s engaging if offbeat heist film ticks like clockwork, and is accompanied by a terrific iPod playlist for a soundtrack.
Even non-climbing enthusiasts will fall in love with Tommy Caldwell in this well-made documentary as he and his climbing partner attempt to free climb a route up the legendary El Capitan that had been deemed impossible to scale.