Horrible Bosses takes a classless and immature plot with generic themes and underdeveloped characters played by an uncommonly strong ensemble cast, and churns out a movie that [...]
Larry Crowne is a drab, overzealous middle-manager with a hidden inner gentleman. Does it make sense that this guy ends up with Julia Roberts? Not really. But then, this is [...]
A surprisingly challenging film, with a uniquely disconcerting charm, The Sleeping Beauty is certainly recommended. It opens this Friday (7/8) in New York at the IFC Center.
Iran has a rich Persian culture and a fascinating history. Viewers might pick up an interesting tidbit here and there in Our Summer in Tehran, but it is not a go-to source to [...]
Often dubbed the Yiddish Mark Twain (to which Mr. Clemens once replied: “Tell him I am the American Sholem Aleichem”), he remains best known as the creator of Tevye the [...]
Brother Amos paints scatological outsider art in the barn. Nobody knows what the prodigal Cornelius has been up to for the last 15 or 20 years, and he is not talking when he [...]
What initial positives ‘Monte Carlo’ had going for it quickly disappeared as the plot twirled into an utter lack of reality so childish that it exceeds even the bounds of [...]