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This Indonesian film truly has a nonstop glut of martial-arts action, so don't worry about the minimalist story and characters.
The epic story of three kids inspired by Spielberg's adventure tale
Colin Firth stars with Nicole Kidman in this memoir about a WWII POW in Burma who, in the present day, still suffers repercussions.
The year is 2042 and the word “terminator” has taken on a new cultural meaning. Terminators are the abortionists of this future society. By constitutional amendment, abortion and non-barrier methods of birth control have become illegal ...
This politically scathing British film by director Ken Loach (Riff-Raff) might best be described as “kitchen-sink comedy,” named after the late-1950s to '60s British school of principled filmmaking that focused on working-class realism and taboo topics. ...
The legend of Texas journalism gets the coverage she deserves
Zhang's film is a biting examination of sexual politics, mandarin-style. Also stunningly gorgeous to look at, this melodrama transcends all borders and eras to speak to the ages.
Raise your voice and just say "no" to Hilary Duff as a wannabe singing sensation.
Bodysnatching comedy find humor in our shortcomings
De Palma once again blatantly borrows from other movies without shame and rubs your nose in every camera trick imaginable, but he also does something of which he's seldom been guilty: He ignores the fundamental principles of suspense.
Ugg boots, ugh movie. Cuddle-bunny story stars Kate Hudson.
The camera fixes first on a 16-year-old named Victor (Victor Rasuk), who is flexing his abs and licking his lips. Then, on a teenage girl – the kids in their Lower East Side neighborhood call her ...
Animated race movie about a slow loris with speedy dreams
Disney gets a lot of the bugs out of their arcade franchise
Richard Alpert started life in 1931 as a nice Jewish boy. He grew up to be a doctor, the Ph.D. kind, and served on the psychology faculties of Stanford and Harvard. There he heard the rambunctious ...
Rambling Rose is a warm, winning slice of life set in 1935 Georgia. It tells the story of how a whole family is affected when the gangly yet sexually irrepressible Rose (Dern) enters their lives. Moreover, ...
Rambo (2008, 99 min., R)
In his fourth cinematic outing, Rambo's tasked with saving Christian missionaries in Burma.
Last blood? We can only hope, as Rambo goes full MAGA
What's cooking in the world's greatest ramen shops?
This wackily despairing horror film from Germany is chock-full o' blood and guts.
Beverly Cleary's beloved Ramona Quimby makes a pleasing leap to the big screen with this adaptation.
Rampage (2018, 107 min., PG-13)
The Rock! The ape! The lizard! The ... flying wolf?
If Dirty Harry were a real person who lived and breathed and went to the movies, Rampage might be his cup of poison. Yet odds are, he'd regard Rampage's hero, Anthony Fraser (Biehn), a wimp. Fraser ...
Rampart (2011, 108 min., R)
Woody Harrelson reunites with the director of The Messenger to create this portrait of a very dirty cop.
Ran (1985, 161 min., R)
Kurosawa uses Shakespeare's King Lear as a template, but in Ran Lear's three scheming daughters are sons, and the action is transposed to a mythic, dreamlike, feudal Japan. Like an adrenalized fever dream of ultimate power gone awry, Ran reveals Kurosawa's grasp of visual splendor at its most powerful.
Something akin to viewing dead grass not growing, Random Hearts is that rarest of movies, a moribund Harrison Ford vehicle, stodgily dull, and seemingly endless in its monotony. Pollack (who also appears here in a minor ...
This Southern-fried comedy, directed by and starring Ray McKinnon, is a flat-footed take on the suburban Southern gentleman in disrepair.
Rango (2011, 107 min., PG)
Watch out, cartoon critters: There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is Rango.
Ransom (1996, 177 min., R)
Your only son is kidnapped, the abductors demand a $2 million ransom, and you're filthy rich. So what do you do? If you're the protagonist Tom Mullen (Gibson) in Ransom, you do the only logical thing: ...
During WWII, works of art were moved, hidden, and plundered on a vast and often institutional scale, and this film documents the shaky process of reclamation.