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A program of eight short films nominated for live-action and animated Academy Awards in 2004.
As that sublime spectacle the Academy Awards lumbers along each year, you have to pick and choose your bathroom breaks -- you don't want to be caught with your pants down when some packed-in starlet pops ...
This compilation features seven shorts nominated for Academy Awards in the past year: "Inja" by Steve Pasvolsky, "The Cathedral" by Tomek Baginski, "I’ll Wait for the Next One …" by Philippe Orreindy, "Fait d'Hiver" by Dirk ...
Extreme gentrification on the outskirts of Bucharest
Inept action flick marks the end of any possible Lundgrenaissance
Accepted (2006, 92 min., PG-13)
Accepted asserts that a college run by students might be better than its institutional alternative, but who wants education advice from the creators of such a witless, uninspired excuse for a college comedy?
Fights galore, over-the-top kills, and a major Scott Adkins showcase
Familiar but heartwarming story of a city slicker who gets stuck in a small town
Set during the winter of 1942-43 in German-occupied Paris and wartime London, this French movie tells the story of the accompanists of the world, the people who are supporting players in other people's lives and never ...
Math, mayhem, and murder abound in this somewhat confusing thriller
Finding yourself starved for some old Jerry Lewis-style clowning? Your response to that question will probably color your reaction to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey (the white guy on In Living Color) mugs his way ...
When speaking critically about any of Jim Carrey's films, there's only one burning question that really needs to be asked: "Is it funny?" Keeping this in mind, let's cut right to the chase. If you liked ...
It's been years since I've come across a film with a script this poor. It's almost as if screenwriter Kevin Elders had set out to consolidate every single action film cliché into one gorgeously awful smorgasbord ...
Acharya (2022, 136 min., NR)
Hyperviolent Telugu drama wastes its once-in-a-lifetime casting
Call it Trainspotting 2, if you must, just don't confuse this trio of short films adapted from Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh's collection of the same name with Danny Boyle's groundbreaking Welsh-adapted tale of junkies down and ...
Julie Taymor takes the timelessness of the Beatles' music and yanks it earthward into a minefield of literalism.
In this disturbing documentary, former Indonesian death-squad leaders boastfully reenact their real-life mass killings with touches inspired by their favorite movies.
Navy SEALs conduct a rescue mission in this film that employed actual soldiers and their experiences in its making.
Johnny Knoxville takes one for the team (again)
A meta-movie about a struggling actor
Actress (1992, 167 min.)
At 154 minutes, this expansive Chinese film version of the life of actress Ruan Ling-yu -- China's answer to Greta Garbo and one of that country's most highly regarded silent film stars -- is an occasionally ...
Ad Astra (2019, 122 min., PG-13)
Brad Pitt deals with a case of the space ... madness!
Adam (2009, 99 min., PG-13)
Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne co-star in this love story about a guy with Asperger's Syndrome and the girl who lives next door.
It’s an honest, refreshing comedy about love – gay, straight, or both – and is a date movie for all occasions and persuasions.
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights seems to be fashioned around the idea of making fun of as many body parts as possible -- no matter where their location. Thus, in addition to the fart and boob ...
Pitting a skinhead against a priest, this Danish comedy, like most of that country's dramas, is dark, dark, dark.
Not to be confused with the 1949 Tracy-Hepburn battle of the sexes comedy of the same title, Krishtofovich's film is instead an engaging domestic drama woven as a rich tapestry of shifting moods and compelling performances. ...
Adaptation. is a profound natural process by which living things unconsciously mutate over time in order to achieve greater concordance with their surroundings. Adaptation can also be a prosaic mechanical process though which a pre-existing thing ...
A spirit-crushing vacation for everyone's favorite ghouls
Uncle Fester finds love.