The Kiwi multi-hyphenate revealed himself to be quite responsive and allergic to self-aggrandizement.
It has generous lashings of Aardman Animations’ trademark warmth, visual inventiveness, and satisfying Claymation tactility.
Breaking the laws of human nature is an ancient comic convention, but it only works when it leads to a laugh.
The actor discusses how he finds a character’s DNA through the way that he moves.
One of our finest actresses, she has a knack for making cool, even somewhat icy characters seem sympathetic.
Ron “Stray Dog” Hall proves to be a welcome antidote to stereotypes about burly, bearded red-state RV dwellers.
Any hope of meaningful reflection or insight is doused by a steady drip of often redundant and banal observations.
Duvall’s evident admiration for his wife are typical of this film, in which so much seems touchingly sincere but clumsily expressed.
In town to promote Results, Pearce was articulate, seemingly unguarded, and quietly enthusiastic.
The filmmaker scores some interesting points about how the work we do both reflects and affects who we are.
A neatly balanced tragicomedy about the easily blurred line between assisted living and assisted death.
The film devolves now and then into cartoonish cutesiness with its broadly drawn minor characters.
Like Cake, Meadowland takes a slow, painfully close look at the effects of a parent losing a child.
The Cut lives up to its title, creating two sets of strong, sometimes dueling reactions.
Man Up’s quick-paced, quippy dialogue aims for screwball sass and sizzle but doesn’t quite hit the mark.
The cumulative effect is cheerily life-affirming, a bracing infusion of macaque-style joie de vivre.
J. Davis’s Manson Family Vacation is a disarmingly unpredictable tale of reconciliation between two brothers.
Twinsters is a charming, energizing, and sometimes moving meditation on what it means to be a family.
The inclusivity of this Melissa McCarthy showcase leaves plenty of room for the rest of the cast to stretch their comedic legs.
It’s so easy to take images for granted in our media-saturated, selfie-happy culture, but that’s a luxury the subjects can’t indulge in.