Emotions run rampant in ‘Lola Versus’ ✭✭ 1/2
"Lola Versus" is a comic case study of a yearlong emotional meltdown for an about-to-turn-30, angsty, artsy New Yorker. While that might not sound entertaining, it is made so by...
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Hope springs eternal in ‘I Wish’ ✭✭✭ 1/2
Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, who has that rare ability to capture the essence of childhood with effervescent sensitivity, has done it again with "I Wish," the story of a family...
Hope springs eternal in ‘I Wish’ ✭✭✭ 1/2
Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, who has that rare ability to capture the essence of childhood with effervescent sensitivity, has done it again with "I Wish," the story of a family...
Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline can’t save messy ‘Darling Companion’ ✭ 1/2
Like Freeway, the lovable stray dog at the center of this very teary comedy, "Darling Companion"has lost its way. Even the marquee ensemble anchored by Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Kevin...
Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline can’t save messy ‘Darling Companion’ ✭ 1/2
Like Freeway, the lovable stray dog at the center of this very teary comedy, "Darling Companion"has lost its way. Even the marquee ensemble anchored by Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Kevin...
‘Being Flynn’: Like father, like son? Perhaps ✭✭ 1/2
It's not easy "Being Flynn." Not for Jonathan Flynn, the absentee alcoholic father played by Robert De Niro, nor the restless 20-something son Nick, played by Paul Dano, the estranged...
Search for a better life caught in the crossfire
What happens when being in the right place at the right time is also the wrong place at the wrong time? When what saves you could ultimately destroy you? That's...
Understanding the man who talks to horses
"Buck," the story of the real horse whisperer Buck Brannaman, comes at you with the understated eloquence of the man himself — a soft-spoken cowboy philosopher changing lives as he...
Your guide to Thanksgiving weekend movies
The holiday is a time when families and friends spend much of their quality time at the movie theater, so why don't you join them? Here is a list of...
‘No Impact Man’ ***
Wading right into the muck of our most basic consumption addictions with an armload of facts and a terrific sense of irony, "No Impact Man" follows activist writer Colin Beavan...