Jason says: “OUR IDIOT BROTHER is just as broad a comedy as its name suggests but a good deal less mean-spirited. In other eras, it might have been a door-slamming farce, although in the present its screwball tendencies are held
Jason says: “There’s an interesting idea at the center of ONE BIG HAPA FAMILY – investigating the astonishingly high rate of mixed marriages among ethnically Japanese Canadians – and director Jeff Chiba Stearns is enthusiastic about pursuing it and occasionally
Diane says: “I had avoided this one for quite a while because I thought it would be trite. But no! Based on the true story of French monks in Algeria in the late 1990s, much of the film covers the
Jason says: “I don’t think it was Patricio Guzmán’s plan to do a bait-and-switch with his documentary NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT, but if it was, he executes an unusually smooth and effective one here: It’s one thing to start with
Jason says: “One thing that I’ve noticed from reviewing Korean movies is that action movies are fairly likely to have the same person credited as writing and directing, whereas in Hollywood (and elsewhere) there will be many more names in
Jason says: “For the last few years, I’ve had this recurring joke about how hiring TakashivMiike to direct family movies is the Japanese equivalent of Warner Brothers getting the rights to Harry Potter and deciding that the right man for
Jason says: “As near as I can tell, J.K. Simmons has never had a starring role in the movies or on television. He’s been part of ensembles, and stolen scenes in supporting parts, but being the first guy listed in
Julie says: “There was one funny moment in the grocery store at the beginning of the movie which involves a loud speaker. Feel free to turn the movie off after that. The rest just seemed very amateurish to me and
Jason says: “MOOZ-LUM opens with ‘based on actual events,’ and it does wind up feeling like the sort of the sort of movie that such a label gets applied to. It’s well-observed and at times fascinatingly authentic, but also clearly
Michael says: “Julian Schnabel, director of the acclaimed THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this ambitious historical tale told from the point-of-view of an idealistic, but naive young Arab woman named Miral. In 1948, Hind
