Review: “Battleship”
Overlong and underwritten even by the standards of summer f/x extravaganzas, this "Battleship" will nonetheless float with many on the strength of its boyish, eager-to-please razzle-dazzle.
Guy Lodge
Review: “Hard Boiled Sweets”
A running confectionery metaphor adds artificial coloring but little discernible flavor to "Hard Boiled Sweets."
Review: “Mercy”
"Mercy" is a forbiddingly austere title for German helmer Matthias Glasner's polished, accessible moral melodrama, which is less about the eponymous virtue than assorted states of guilt.
Review: “Calm at Sea”
New German Cinema vet Volker Schloendorff broke out in 1979 with "The Tin Drum," a formally brazen metaphorical vision of WWII horrors.
Review: “Marley”
"Marley" is a generous, absorbing, family-authorized docu on the late, still-reigning king of reggae music.
Review: “Acts of Godfrey”
There's considerably more rhyme than reason in musician-turned-filmmaker Johnny Daukes' debut feature, "Acts of Godfrey," a strained exercise in dramaturgical gimmickry that would be trying even as…
Review: “Ghett'a Life”
The worlds of international boxing and gang-ruled Jamaican politics are twinned to initially eye-opening but ultimately welterweight effect in "Ghett'a Life."
Review: “Li and the Poet”
In the lyrical opening shot of "Li and the Poet," lit candles drift over a dark expanse of water, as voiceover explains the Chinese tradition of floating lanterns on rivers to protect the soul of…
Contender: 'The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn'
It's thirty years since Steven Spielberg's Saturday-matinee throwback "Raiders of the Lost Ark" landed eight Oscar nominations, including mentions for Best Picture and Director.
Review: “Wreckers”
If films have taught us anything, it's that the odds of lasting happiness are stacked against urban yuppies seeking peace in the countryside, and so it is once more in "Wreckers."
