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Aloft (2015, 116 min., R)
Jennifer Connelly and Cillian Murphy play an odd and estranged mother and son
Aloha (2015, 105 min., PG-13)
Cameron Crowe parks this rom-com in Hawaii
Alone (2020, 98 min., R)
Neo-slasher is quietly effective and bloodily harsh
There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.
Much like its predecessor, 1997's Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider is an efficient, if overly mechanized, delivery system of thrills 'n' chills, classed up by some narrative sleight of hand and the rock-solid performance ...
Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston date and become more than just friends.
Alpha (2018, 96 min., PG-13)
The first-ever boy and his dog story
This 3-D animated film is about two wolves trying to find their way back to their pack.
Alpha Dog (2007, 115 min., R)
It’s a soggy true-crime drama – too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.
Climbing doc has trouble keeping up with its enigmatic subject
What's it all about, Alvin? This by-the-numbers attempt at a chipmunk revival is not bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
We're wondering if anyone will call the ASPCA if we leave these animated rodents chipwrecked far from civilization.
Call the exterminator: The tuneful rodents are back
Alvin, Simon, and Theodore have good reason to squeak: Girl chipmunks enter the picture.
Behind-the-scenes at NYC's legendary hotel is just PR fluff.
A couple try to reignite their marriage
(This Chronicle review is reprinted from an earlier screening of the film at the Austin Film Festival 2002.) The history of apartheid in South Africa is an ugly story, but one that needs to be told. ...
Amateur (1994, 105 min., R)
A Hal Hartley film is an acquired taste. A viewer can slip in and out of appreciation for Hartley's work, but it takes a true Hartley-ite to champion all of his films without pause. With Amateur, ...
The lost concert movie of the nights that Aretha Franklin recorded her iconic album
Unfortunately, what makes British abolitionist William Wilberforce a great man is also what makes him dull: his single-minded righteousness.
Can this tale of magical rodents beat the Pratchett adaptation curse?
How about The Boring Panda Adventure? Or maybe The Formulaic Disney Ripoff? Either one is a more apt title for this tired retread of Uncle Walt's past nature-in-jeopardy vehicles. When 10-year-old Ryan Tyler (Slater) is invited ...
More proves to be less for Spidey this time out.
The Amazing Spider-Meh might be a better name for this dullish retread.
The Amazon River Basin -- seething with life, death, corruption and rebirth -- has always been easy food for filmmakers, and though this new film is about as far as one can get from recent, guilt-heavy ...
With daring, gonzo filmmaking, this documentary film penetrates the blood-diamond trade in the Central African Republic.
Ambulance (2022, 136 min., R)
Is it good? No. Is it Michael Bay at his most explodey? Yes.
Amelia (2009, 111 min., PG)
Hilary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's big-budget biopic.
Amélie (2001, 122 min., R)
Why not get happy? Why not celebrate love, and little twists of fate, and a sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris? Amélie's heart is in the right place – squarely on its sleeve. And what better place for it?
Amen. (2002, 132 min., NR)
Firebrand filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Missing) turns his lens upon the Holocaust, examining the conditions that allowed the mass exterminations of Jews to continue in virtually full view of the world. This is the story of Lt. Kurt ...