Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim. PG 81 min Drama. Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help. A Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive. R min Drama, Mystery, War. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
PG min Adventure, Drama, History. NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. PG min Drama. After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio. This was filmed in the IMAX process, which allows the film to be projected in a size ten times the size of a regular 35mm projected image.
PG min Drama, War. A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of the top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret. R min Biography, Crime, Drama. PG 99 min Drama, Music. A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.
Votes: 31, A widow's best friend tries to find her a new husband, but the ad posted in the newspaper attracts more than one possibility. PG min Biography, Drama. A biopic depicting the early years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes ' career from the late s to the mid s.
The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
PG 97 min Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm. Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Director: Alejandro G. PG 94 min Action, Crime, Drama. An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands. Votes: 70, NC 96 min Crime, Drama, Thriller. While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption. PG 96 min Drama, Sport. The story of the friendship between a worldly-wise star pitcher and a half-wit catcher as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.
Director: John D. R 99 min Comedy, Crime, Drama. During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son. Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. But forget ratings systems altogether. What inclines me to tilt in a more favorable direction? I submit the following possibilities:. I like movies too much. I walk into the theater not in an adversarial attitude, but with hope and optimism except for some movies, of course.
I know that to get a movie made is a small miracle, that the reputations, careers and finances of the participants are on the line, and that hardly anybody sets out to make a bad movie. I do not feel comfortable posing as impossible to please. Film lovers attend different movies for different reasons, all of them valid; did I enjoy " Joe Versus the Volcano " more than some Oscar winners?
There are some who make films I simply find myself vibrating with. I feel strongly about actors I admire, watching their ups and downs and struggles to work in a system that often sees them only as meat.
I opened my review of " The Women " this way: "What a pleasure this movie is, showcasing actresses I've admired for a long time, all at the top of their form.
Yes, they're older now, as are we all, but they look great, and know what they're doing. I interviewed Candice Bergen for the first time in God, she was wonderful. I mean as a person. She was one of the most beautiful women in the world, and she married Louis Malle , and was happy. Louis Malle was beautiful too, if you know what I mean, and a great filmmaker. She fell in love with both her head and her heart. I felt a particular pleasure in seeing her and that whole cast together.
Once the scent of blood is in the water, the sharks arrive. I like to write as if I'm on an empty sea. I don't much care what others think. See them both and tell me. I am never concerned about finding myself in the minority. I have sympathy for genres, film noir in particular. I like science fiction. Ed Harris has a new Western coming out named " Appaloosa. You wait and see. In connection with my affinity for genres, in the early days of my career I said I rated a movie according to its "generic expectations," whatever that meant.
It might translate like this: "The star ratings are relative, not absolute. If a director is clearly trying to make a particular kind of movie, and his audiences are looking for a particular kind of movie, part of my job is judging how close he came to achieving his purpose. In my mind, four stars and, for that matter, one star, are absolute, not relative. They move outside "generic expectations" and triumph or fail on their own.
I have quoted countless times a sentence by the critic Robert Warshow , who wrote: "A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man. I cannot walk out of a movie that engaged me and deny that it did. It lets you understand a little bit more about different hopes, aspirations, dreams and fears. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. It lies flat on the screen, hardly stirring. Ebert was basically a liberal humanist, and this point-of-view is evident in many of the zero-star reviews.
The ill. Anyone, in fact, who is not exactly like Andrew Dice Clay is fair game for his cruel attacks. Filmmakers like George Romero and John Carpenter have to show some restraint! Later in his career, Ebert took a more resigned—and, in my opinion, persuasive—tone in his zero-star reviews. Ugly emotions are easier to evoke and often more commercial than those that contribute to the ongoing lives of the beholders.
None of these are perfect, and some are even bad, but they deserve a more nuanced take than Ebert was able to provide. Ebert does not register the satiric elements, and spends most of his review reviewing the audience—according to Ebert, the R-rated film attracted mostly children. When it comes to his takedowns of two difficult artists—Andy Warhol and Jerry Lewis—your mileage may vary. You have heard that this is a violent film. But who could have suspected how violent, and to what vile purpose, it really is?
In this film, there are scenes depicting a man whose urinary tract is closed, and who has gallons of wine poured down his throat. His bursting stomach is punctured with a sword. There is a scene in which a man is emasculated, and his genitals thrown to dogs, who eagerly eat them on the screen. There are scenes of decapitation, evisceration, rape, bestiality, sadomasochism, necrophilia.
Caligula was and is a notoriously troubled production—and, frankly, a bad film. Though its colonialist politics are difficult to accept, Africa Addio is also a stunningly vivid document of a continent in transition, and Farewell Uncle Tom remains the most realistic and uncompromising film about the horrors of slavery.
Neither film is noble, but neither can be dismissed so easily. Speaking of uncompromising films about slavery, we have Mandingo John Waters is a charming man, whose later films, such as Polyester and Hairspray , take advantage of his bemused take on pop culture. His early films, made on infinitesimal budgets and starring his friends, used shock as a way to attract audiences, and that is understandable.
He jump-started his career, and in the movie business, you do what you gotta do. The day may never come when it is seen as funny. Seeing Tom Green reminded me, as how could it not, of his movie Freddy Got Fingered , which was so poorly received by the film critics that it received only one lonely, apologetic positive review on the Tomatometer. Bad movie, especially the scene where Green was whirling the newborn infant around his head by its umbilical cord.
I refer to it sometimes. It is a milestone. And for all its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie, a go-for-broke attempt to accomplish something. Anyone with his nerve and total lack of taste is sooner or later going to make a movie worth seeing.
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