Eight self-absorbed thirty-something Los Angelenos gather at that yuppie-est of conventions: the Sunday couples brunch, held at the lavish home of the brittle, bickering married pair Emma (Erinn Hayes) and Pete (Blaise Miller). The guests are uptight medic Tracy (Julia Stiles), who’s on her third date with prudish schoolteacher Glen (David Cross); tattooed hedonist Buck (Kevin M. Brennan) and ... more >
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Oblivion
Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
Tom Cruise is indestructible, it seems. After escaping unscathed out of the Paramount fiasco, he now teams up with Universal to help create "Oblivion," a sci-fi thriller that's ambitious and breathtaking. In any case, that's what was promised on paper. Because "Oblivion" did hold promise--on a large scale. All the elements were there for serious, high-brow sci-fi entertainment: a namesake ... more >
The company you keep
Robert Redford, Shia LeBeouf and Julie Christie
Directed by Robert Redford
Things begin in the sixties in Robert Redford’s "The Company You Keep." A group of radicals rob a bank in Michigan. The ringleader, shown in dusty old FBI wanted posters, looks remarkably like The Sundance Kid. Who are those guys? That’s the question the Feds are asking, and they have asked for more than thirty years. More accurately, where are those guys? The robbers long ago blended ... more >
STARBUCK
Patrick Huard and Julie LeBreton
Directed by Ken Scott
Raising two is hard enough but after that you sort of get the hang of it. The next 533 should be almost a breeze. Unless you’re in your early forties and have no idea you’ve sired this crowd and you meet a fraction of those 533 when they’re young adults, way beyond nappies and baby formula. This is what David Wozniak (Patrick Huard) is faced with, a hapless meat delivery man with enough ... more >
Stories we tell
Pixie Bigelow and Deirdre Bowen
Directed by Sarah Polley
Stories told in the movies are often unearthed from the bric-a-brac of our own lives, since life teems with narratives. For her first documentary, Sarah Polley lifted the veil on a family secret whose revealing caused her and her close ones much, much heartache. Polley ("Take this Waltz") is an Oscar-nominated writer, actress, and filmmaker who's made two feature films about intimate ... more >
Warm Bodies
Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Parker
Directed by Jonathan Levine
After vampires and wherewolves let us hail the return of the zombies (whether they appear in "The Walking Dead," "Warm Bodies," "28 days and weeks later," "Zombieland," or, very soon, "World War Z," zombies are pleasing to audiences--they're attention-grabbers and soon they'll probably control everything). The Jonathan Levine-directed (PROFILE) "Warm Bodies" expounds on the living-dead ... more >
White Elephant
Ricardo Darin, Jérémie Renier and Martina Gusman
Directed by Pablo Trapero
Pablo Trapero is a socially-committed filmmaker who delivers powerful movies. After "Leonera" (2008) and "Carancho" (2010) he delves into one of Argentina's more bothersome problems, its everspreading urban slums. In an Argentina that's been licking its economic wounds, the slum have become a supporting character in and of itself. In the vein of Ken Loach or Fernando Meirelles Pablo Trapero ... more >
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