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Brazilian-set Japanese revenger could be weirder and bloodier
The Yards (2000, 115 min., R) 




There are a number of extremely enjoyable aspects to this second feature by James Gray (Little Odessa), among them Howard Shore's ominous score, which never lets you forget you're watching a slew of characters and situations ...
A woman reclaims her life
This Brazilian film is set against the twinned, opposing backdrops of the explosive 1970 World Cup and the human toll of the country's brutal military dictatorship.
This one should pretty much sink without a trace, so I hate to even stir the waters by detailing how inept it is. Sufficient to say that if you're going to do Hitchcock, you should be ...
In his directorial debut, Mike White embraces the awkward with this story of a woman (played by Molly Shannon) who just wants to be loved.
COVID-inspired anthology eschews cohesion for innovation
Year of the Fish is an animated fairy tale for adults that transposes the story of Cinderella to a Chinatown massage parlor.
It didn't take a genius of casting to come up with McCarthy as a lightweight journalist hiding out from commitment and hard work in Rome in the 1970s. Unfortunately, just being a lightweight doesn't qualify anyone ...
It's been nearly three decades since Neil Young and Crazy Horse's first album, Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere, came out, and that quintessentially American, purebred rock & roll band is still deep in the trenches, slogging ...
Year One (2009, 97 min., PG-13) 




Jack Black and Michael Cera are comic wanderers through the biblical era.
Yellow (1998, 105 min., NR) 




Lee's debut feature is a seriocomic look at the pre-graduation jitters surrounding a group of Korean-American high schoolers over the course of two days as the plan for their futures and the world outside of the ...
Iraq War veteran's novel gets a sadly uninspiring adaptation
Based on an 800-word story by Pete Hamill, this small-scale relationship drama stars William Hurt, Kristen Stewart, Maria Bello, and Eddie Redmayne.
Yellow Rose (2020, 93 min., PG-13) 




The real New Country in this very Austin story of musical roots
Yes (2005, 100 min., R) 




While the unconventional Yes doesn’t realize all of its artistic ambitions, its depiction of romantic passion still resonates.
Catholic sexual awakening gets a charming, honest new spin
Yes Man (2008, 104 min., PG-13) 




Jim Carrey plays a guy who just can't say no, a predicament which creates more a collection of humorous set-pieces than a satisfying movie.
These anti-corporate pranksters strike again.
The Yes Men are a couple of prankster activists whose target in this movie is the World Trade Organization.
Yesterday (2019, 112 min., PG-13) 




Imagine a world without the Beatles ... then imagine a better film
Yi Yi (2000, 173 min., NR) 




At nearly three hours long, Yang's final film is a novelistic portrait of the Jians, a comfortable middle-class family, presumably like many others, whose members can be categorized neither as happy nor unhappy.
Yogi Bear (2010, 80 min., PG) 




This mixture of animated talking animals and live action is unbearable.
Gertrude Berg, the woman behind the radio and TV icon Molly Goldberg, is profiled in this documentary.
Gay lovers in the Israeli army also suffer the effects of a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
You Again (2010, 105 min., PG) 




A high school loser who reinvents herself as a successful adult regresses when she returns home in this comedy starring Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, and Betty White.
Just about everybody has a ne'er-do-well in his life. That one person who can't seem to make it right, no matter how hard he tries, only most of the time he's not trying at all. And ...
As far as we know, this Adam Sandler movie is the first Hollywood-made Jewish/Palestinian/immigrant comedy that also doubles as a surprisingly trenchant analysis of the Middle East's perpetual bloodbath.
Should you re-assess Showgirls? No, but that's not what's happening here?
Wild style street dancing trumps storyline.