Few stories capture the anxiety of aging out of childhood like Peter Pan. Jim Gaffigan, who wore a white beard to play Mr. Smee, the long-suffering associate of Jude Law’s Captain Hook...
Read morePietro, the restless, openhearted city boy who narrates “The Eight Mountains,” a tender story about love and friendship, is 11 years old when the movie begins. By the time he is in...
Read moreDeep into “R.M.N.,” an anatomy of the human condition, this powerhouse of a movie gets deeper, creepier and unnervingly familiar. At that point, dozens of residents in a Romanian village have gathered...
Read moreThe English poet T.S. Eliot composed the poems that make up the work eventually published as “Four Quartets” over the course of six years, and at the end of his literary career....
Read moreLust and laughter run thin in “The End of Sex,” a weirdly traditional comedy in which a bored married couple attempt to revitalize their sex life.Directed by Sean Garrity, the film looks...
Read moreThe former boxer George Foreman’s late-20th-century popularity as a television pitchman for a line of cooking products has enabled a collective amnesia. That is, we’ve forgotten just how extraordinary his sports career...
Read moreJoachim Lafosse’s latest film, “The Restless,” makes a valiant effort to depict the toll that bipolar disorder can take on people and their loved ones. We’re introduced to Damien (Damien Bonnard), a...
Read moreThis big-hearted, blithely odd adventure pits a troupe of superpowered circus folk against a psychic Nazi pianist.
Read moreSet in Hungary after World War II, this film concerns a doctor and a teenager seeking to fill the void left by the relatives they lost.
Read moreThere’s a big new Broadway musical called “New York, New York,” and it’s based on the Martin Scorsese film bearing the same title.Sort of.Both the movie and the show have lead characters...
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