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RBG biopic focuses on a single case, but blurs the details
This 1992 film compiles four short, experimental films that all examine the topic of violence against women. Beyond this shared theme, they all have little else in common. “Seven Lucky Charms” (by Lisa Mann) and “Open ...
It's possible that all you ever need to know about On the Edge is that at one point its working title was The Smiling Suicide Club. That, and also that someone thought a mere cosmetic change ...
Apparently looking to extend his 15 minutes, 'N Sync crooner Lance Bass stars in his feature-film debut as Kevin, a Windy City ad exec who meets a girl (Chriqui) on the El train one day, flirts ...
Sofia Coppola heads to NYC for a slight but charming anti-rom-com
Boxing, that peculiar sport that engenders both brutality and balletic finesse in its athletes, has never particularly captured this critic's imagination apart from such related films as Raging Bull and When We Were Kings. Burstein and ...
Once (2007, 85 min., R)
This delicate Irish import, which stars the frontman of the Frames, is an insightful and endearing reimagining of a familiar genre: the musical.
Pleasant summer-camp film checks its religious ideology at the tent
The unexpected rise and meteoric fall of the North American Soccer League in the heady, silly mid-Seventies is chronicled for the first time in this charmingly chatty documentary, which ably tracks both the birth of the sport on these shores and its ignominious downfall, which arrived almost overnight with the leave-taking of Pelé.
This frothy little comedy is a pleasant enough amusement. It's not a big belly-laugh of a comedy, but it's quickly paced, fun and entertaining. Its deft script is put in the service of this “who's who” ...
Deadpool is back ... and he brought Fred Savage with him
If you don't have air conditioning but you have plenty of money, and if your kids have exercised enough this week outdoors and are in need of some short, sweet, brief, light, fleeting, animated entertainment, Once ...
Set in the turbulent world of 19th-century China, University of Texas alumnus Hark has fashioned an epic tale of a country and its people in the throws of societal upheaval and sudden change. As the western ...
Funny thing about Chinese film sequels: they tend to be better than their originals. Take this one for example. Whereas Once Upon A Time in China I tended to be a spectacular series of action-oriented set ...
Jet Li is back as the legendary physician and martial arts master in this third outing in Hark's "historical" epics.
For the fourth time, Tsui Hark's Film Workshop brings us another in a seemingly unending stream of historical dramas featuring the exploits of monk/martial artist Wong Fei-Hong. Maybe it's me, but the series seems to be ...
Sandwiched in between his far more ambitious Green Snake and The Butterfly Lovers, Hong Kong trendsetter Tsui Hark found the time to continue his popular martial arts saga with this latest chapter that, while not up ...
Tarantino takes Tinseltown head-on
The third film in Robert Rodriguez’s south-of-the-border action trilogy is a whole lot of movie.
British romantic tale uses the gunslinger mythos as a means to explore romance and regret.
The true, crazy story of Wakaliwood
With a story and a set of characters that are not seen on the silver screen with the regularity of, say, exploding motor vehicles, it becomes tempting to overpraise the eloquently titled Once Upon a Time ...
All the steps before that last waltz
Harrowing is the first word that comes to mind when describing this movie. You can tell from the opening shot that Once Were Warriors will not settle for surface illusions. It opens with a tightly focused ...
One (1998, 90 min., NR)
There's plenty here to appreciate if you're a fan of the school of filmmaking in which emotions are held to a slow, controlled simmer, their latent power suggested mainly through visual and gestural cues that hint ...
Inside China’s 36-year war on women’s bodies
Horror becomes filmmaking comedy becomes a touching family triumph
One Day (2011, 107 min., PG-13)
This gimmicky romantic drama charts 20 years of one British couple's ups and downs in one-day blips.
Recipient of the 2000 Oscar for Best Documentary, this film unfolds the gripping drama that occurred on September 5, 1972, during the Munich Olympics, when eight armed Palestinian terrorists took 11 members of the Israeli delegation hostage.
This big, fat kiss to the band's young, female fans is directed by that advocate for good nutrition: Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock.