Written and directed by James Ponsoldt ("The Spectacular Now"), "The End of the Tour" might fit well on a double bill with "Amadeus," another film about a genius and a lesser artist who basks in his aura. Of course, the setting is very different,...
What the Oscar-nominated documentary “Super Size Me” was to the fast-food industry, “That Sugar Film” endeavors to be for businesses that are invested in refined sugar, a nearly unavoidable additive in the...
Hong Kong neo-noir "Wild City" takes its time going everywhere it needs to go. That's not a diplomatic way of saying that the film is boring, nor is it a polite way of admitting that the film is poorly paced. Instead, "Wild City," the first feature...
In his masterful “Museum Hours,” filmmaker Jem Cohen merged his skills as an urban documentarian with a narrative about two unlikely
friends. Art, history, companionship, support and everyday life merged into one
vision. His latest,...
“He made my life
better by being a friend of mine.” This line near the end of “I Am Chris
Farley” captures, in many ways, why the loss of Chris Farley hurt so much, and
continues to resonate: he felt like a friend. We had...
Examining the fiery, acerbic debates televised debates between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Gore Vidal during the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1968, Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon’s “The Best of Enemies” provides a...
It’s symptomatic that the only really memorable scene during “Paulo
Coelho’s Best Story,” a film with a running time of 112 minutes, lasts about 60
seconds and focuses not on the title character, but on his father. Set in a...
When it was announced that there was going to be a full-length feature film based upon LEGOs, those ubiquitous plastic bricks that people have been playing with and stepping on in their bare feet for decades, most observers scoffed at the very...
The beautiful Paz Vega nearly steals “Paulo Coelho’s Best
Story,” the true story of the legendary author of “The Alchemist,” one of the
most translated books in the history of literature, opening in select cities...
The Tom Cruise-ist moment in the history of
Tom Cruise films was the one in "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" where Tom Cruise's super-agent escaped a 9/11
style bombing of the Kremlin and a false arrest as the main suspect
and reunited with...