Written and Directed by Ruben Ostlund Produced by Erik Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson and Philippe Bober Released by Magnolia Pictures Swedish, with English subtitles Sweden/France. 118 min. Rated R With Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju and Fanni Metelius Films about vacations from hell typically fall into humorous, wacky adventures: […]
Directed by Erik Poppe Written by Harald Rosenlow Eeg Produced by Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae Released by Film Movement Norway/Ireland/Sweden. 117 min. Not rated With Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny, Adrianna Cramer Curtis, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Larry Mullen Jr Through 1,000 Times Good Night, Norwegian co-writer and director Erik Poppe dramatizes […]
Written and Directed by David Ayer Produced by Bill Block, Ayer, Ethan Smith and John Lesher Released by Columbia Pictures UK/USA. 134 min. Rated R With Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs, Brad William Henke, Jim Parrack, Xavier Samuel, Scott Eastwood, Kevin Vance, Anamaria Marinca, and Alicia von Rittberg […]
Written & Directed by Jesse Moss Produced by Moss and Amanda McBaine Released by Drafthouse Films USA. 101 min. Rated PG-13 Fracking has come to North Dakota in recent years, and with it came a job boom that has given the state the lowest unemployment rate in the country. Many filmmakers have focused on fracking’s […]
Written and Directed by Theodore Melfi Produced by Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Melfi and Fred Roos Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13 With Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Chris O’Dowd, Terrence Howard and Jaeden Lieberher In the past five years or so, Bill Murray has seemingly gotten bigger and more […]
Directed by John Curran Produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning Written by Marion Nelson, based on the memoir by Robyn Davidson and inspired by the photographs of Rick Smolan in From Alice to Ocean Released by the Weinstein Company Australia. 102 min. Rated PG-13 With Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Rainer Bock, Rolley Mintuma, John […]
Directed by Cutter Hodierne Somali, with English subtitles Released by Vice Films USA/Kenya/Somalia. 110 min. Rated R Fishing Without Nets is a beautifully shot, intelligent, and engaging, if somewhat clichéd and obvious, story about a group of Somali pirates who capture a cargo ship. It’s kind of a reverse mirror of Captain Phillips. Or Captain […]
Directed by Alan Hicks Written by Hicks and Davis Coombe Produced by Quincy Jones and Paula DuPre’ Pesmen Released by Radius/The Weinstein Company USA. 86 min. Rated R Keep On Keepin’ On intimately catches lightning in a bottle, for what is usually only talked about but rarely seen on film: how a dedicated mentor can […]
Directed by Matthew Warchus Written by Stephen Beresford Produced by David Livingstone Released by CBS Films UK. 120 min. Rated R With Bill Nighy, Imelda Stanton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, George MacKay, Joseph Gilgun, Andrew Scott, Ben Schnetzer, Faye Marsay, Liz White, Menna Trussler, Lisa Palfrey, Freddie Fox, and Jessica Gunning With each passing year, […]