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A tough American man (with a hint of the gangster) and a beautiful woman (foreign, exotic) are trapped in an Axis country before America’s entry into World War II. The bad guys are closing in but our heroes are about to get away. Then at the last minute he tells her to go on without […]

“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind of thing, you’ll like this thing. I laughed. The dumber and more random the jokes, the harder I laughed. The kids I saw it with laughed harder. Often what’s onscreen is humor no more sophisticated than a young father goofing around while

“To Live” is a simple title, but it conceals a universe. The film follows the life of one family in China, from the heady days of gambling dens in the 1940s to the austere hardship of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. And through all of their fierce struggles with fate, all of the political

Not that long ago, a legacy sequel like “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” would have made a fortune at the box office over the Fourth of July weekend. But times have changed, and the long-awaited fourth film in the Eddie Murphy series is dropping on Netflix instead of in the multiplex. While streaming services sequels

The Yakuza have hired hitman Takama Tsurugi (Sonny Chiba) to take care of two men, one who has gone to the police and another who has stolen a priceless statue. They both know too much and when they say “take care of” they mean eliminate, so off Tsurugi goes on his motorbike to get arrested

Who are we kidding? You know damn well what the score is going into any flick called Navy Seals Vs. Zombies, it’s going to be a low-budget action/horror hybrid with a smattering of D-list stars crummy effects, atrocious dialogue, poorly-staged fight sequences, risible acting, and no real point to it. And to be sure, director

With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s Anne has created an impenetrable exterior for herself in “Last Summer.” At least, that’s how it looks from the outside. But Anne doesn’t know she’s the main character in a Catherine Breillat movie, and so she–and we–are up for

Has an auteur ever turned on his characters and the worldview they triumph as sharply and definitively as Lukas Moodysson? The Euro-pop feel-goodies of his debut and sophomore productions may have been, in hindsight, an aesthetic blind alley (an emotionally mature film about a ramshackle socialist co-op that miraculously manages to eschew both quirky familial

A searing drama about a European refugee crisis that resonates with similar crises in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and yes, America’s southwestern border, Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” strikes me as the best and most important film to be released in the U.S. so far this year. That judgment is due not only to the

Seven Mummies is a conceptual oddity. Though the title gives the impression that it is a modern mummy film, what we have is a variant of the Western ghost town concept that we have seen in films like Ghost Town (1988), Phantom Town (1997), and Purgatory (1999). (I have a more detailed list of Western/genre