An adaptation of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman’s novel about Upper Manhattan entitlement and sanctimony, this minor 2009 Toronto Film Festival entry has been dusted off to capitalize on insatiable, inexplicable Natalie Portmania. Portman, who also executive-produced, stars as Emilia Greenleaf, the home-wrecker of the title who becomes…
Bhutto111 minutes. Not rated. 7 p.m. Friday, February 18 through February 20, at Bill Cosford Cinema, 1111 Memorial Dr., Coral Gables; 305-284-4861; cosfordcinema.com. Tickets cost $9 general admission, $7 for seniors, students, and UM alumni and employees, and are free for UM students.Duane Baughman’s nonfiction film pays reverential tribute to…
The antithesis of both Marley & Me cuddliness and Cesar Millan militance, J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 memoir about his recalcitrant German shepherd, My Dog Tulip, is one of the finest, most insightful chronicles of inter-species devotion. A complex love story, his book plumbs the inner lives of hounds: “I realized clearly…..
Dissolute action-movie star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), first seen doing laps in his black Ferrari, has no destination in Somewhere, Sofia Coppola’s mood ring of celebrity lassitude. Coppola’s fourth feature, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice this year, is, at times, similarly aimless and empty. But those who groan…
It has taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to finally reach theaters. In the interim, we’ve bided our time with big-screen depictions of man-to-man love such as Brüno and Colin Firth’s suicidal fusspot A Single Man. Save it, Mary: Nothing…
The Next Three Days: Next to nothing
For Colored Girls: Tyler Perry mangles Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem
When we first see Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the final adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy, she is being transported to a hospital in Gothenburg, bloodied almost beyond recognition, the result of a bullet put in her brain by Zalachenko, her barbaric…
Conviction: Hilary Swank emotes big in awards-bait flick
Heartbreaker: Charming Romain Duris gets a bum costar
Waiting for Superman: Remedial ed
Easy A: Scarlet Letter-inspired teen comedy
The Tillman Story sets the record straight
Macho meets homo in the laudable but terrible La Mission
I Am Love: Tilda Swinton’s got to be free
Mother and Child grapples with adoption but glosses over abortion
Endgame, about the covert negotiations in the ’80s that helped bring down apartheid, follows Michael Young (Jonny Lee Miller), a public affairs director for a British gold-mining firm. Miller secretly assembles talks between African National Congress representatives led by Thabo Mbeki (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and powerful Afrikaners like philosophy prof Will…
Brothers is a PTSD melodrama
If you are the director, producer, writer (adapting your own stage play), and costar of a film, you really show how bad you can do all by yourself. Usually thrilling in their lunacy, most Tyler Perry movies can at least keep up their momentum through the combination of an overstuffed…
“If you remember Woodstock, you probably weren’t there,” the expression goes. And if you were, could you please stop gassing on about it? Aquarian Nostalgia™ is the most oppressively sanctimonious and dull stripe of reminiscing. Sure, the three free days of peace and music at Max Yasgur’s farm passed without…
Two weeks after jowly Matthew Perry transformed into pretty Zac Efron to relive his adolescence in 17 Again, Warner Bros. releases Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, another backward and backward-looking child-is-father-to-the-man rom-com, with Matthew McConaughey, who, 18 years Efron’s senior and slightly butcher, has just a few more years of prettiness…
How long does it take Sasha to get fierce in this almost-tongue-in-cheek Fatal Attraction retread? Too long — and even after Beyoncé Knowles (who executive-produced, as did her daddy) delivers the promising line “I’ll show you crazy!” to Lisa (Ali Larter), the predatory temp who’s been messing with her asset-manager…
