Father Figures
On a road to nowhere with Ed Helms and Owen Wilson
"...opened, and out of it dropped the script for Father Figures. Clearly, this was written sometime around 1998, when..."
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Dec. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
This adventure fantasy about a boy's involvement with a mysterious animal is also a period story about childhood anxieties.
"...not dwelled upon, brief mention is made of his father, a sailor, having been killed in the war.) The..."
Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Toy Soldiers
"...a prep school to force the release of his father. The schoolboys, misfits all, pit their skills at thwarting..."
April 26, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher
There Be Dragons
Roland Joffé wrote and directed this drama set during the Spanish Civil War in which one of the protagonists is Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá.
"...this movie, which includes as one of its central figures Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei and one..."
May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Kid
The tale of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid gets a worthwhile if workmanlike retelling
"...he and his sister Sara (George) escape their abusive father after killing him for having killed their mother. That’s..."
March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Squid and the Whale
In this expertly acted piece about the coming apart of a family of New York intellectuals, humor is served not with a smirk but with a helpless shrug.
"...summarized the same. Fifteen-year-old Walt (Eisenberg) sides with their father, Bernard (Daniels), a once-famous author whose reputation is in..."
Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
He Named Me Malala
Doc about the famous champion of girls' eduction, Malala Yousafzai
"...Inspirational figures hardly come more heroic and ready-made than Malala Yousafzai,..."
Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Trouble With the Curve
Despite its love of baseball lore, this film, starring Clint Easstwood and Amy Adams, is really a melodrama about the reconciliation of a father and daughter.
"...game – through observation and instinct rather than computer figures and statistical evaluations. It’s a world practically tailor-made for..."
Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Small Soldiers
"...one day signs for a shipment of military action figures -- the Commando Elite -- while taking care of..."
July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Kazaam
"...of movies from that studio in which popular sports figures have found new homes in Hollywood. (It seems, also,..."
July 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Us
Jordan Peele has met the enemy, and they is Us
"...is as atomic as they come. Mother Adelaide (Nyong'o), father Gabe (Duke), teen daughter Zora (Wright Joseph), and son..."
March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Resurrection of Gavin Stone
A former actor finds faith in his hometown
"...of community service and living with his estranged, widowed father (Flynn). Once ensconced in his new position as church..."
Jan. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Identity Thief
Melissa McCarthy is a comic storm system to Jason Bateman's straight man in this latest variation on the road trip from hell.
"...business executive, straight shooter, husband of Trish (Peet), and father of two – with another on the way. Diana..."
Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black
2016: Obama's America
Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative author, expounds on the president's past, and discusses what he thinks America would look like if Obama were to be re-elected.
"...his need to fulfill the dreams of his absent father, an anticolonialist who wished to diminish the West’s influence..."
Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Derrida
If you don't already worship Derrida, this film won't change your mind.
"...Directed by: Amy Ziering Kofman and Kirby Dick. It figures that the organization of a documentary about Jacques Derrida,..."
Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Delirious
"...did they build the new set?” but gradually he figures it out. Dismayed at first, Candy becomes excited when..."
Aug. 16, 1991 Movie Review by Louis Black
The Woman in Black
Daniel Radcliffe jumps from Hogwarts to this movie's haunted mansion where he stars as a young widower under siege from a malevolent ghost.
"...anchors the film as Arthur Kipps, a widower and father of a young boy, whose grief for his wife..."
Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Renoir
Renoir is great at capturing an Impressionist atmosphere on film but this story about the family relations is dramatically inert.
"...was less sanguine and radiant than that of his father, Pierre-Auguste’s middle son, Jean Renoir, is beloved ’round the..."
May 10, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Sarkar
Bollywood gangster film honors The Godfather.
"...the world, Bollywood's Varma has been influenced by The Godfather, and in an opening statement to Sarkar, he offers..."
Aug. 5, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Coach Carter
Come to this movie for the prominent hip-hop soundtrack and glossy sports action; leave with a message about teamwork, decency, and self-respect scorched into your brain.
"...slow-motion entrances, eyeglasses removed dramatically, training montages, scowling authority figures (principal Denise Dowse), and a huddle of nonspeaking players..."
Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Julien Donkey-Boy
"...Herzog, another bad boy of cinema, plays the brutish father in this story, creating a portrait as intriguing as..."
Dec. 11, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
As Above/So Below
There are things in the catacombs beneath Paris that should remain underground.
"...archaeologist Scarlett (Weeks) as she continues with her late father’s quest to find the Philosopher’s Stone. (Ring a bell,..."
Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss
Only God Forgives
Drive's Nicolas Winding Refn reunites again with Ryan Gosling and adds Kristin Scott Thomas to the mix for this descent into heartlessness.
"...from Refn’s previous work; the extreme violence, the taciturn figures, the striking visuals all can be seen in varying..."
July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
CJ7
Known for his manic comedic style, Chinese filmmaker Stephen Chow tries his hand at a kids movie, but sadly, the result is a cutesy and sentimental story we've seen dozens of times before.
"...differs from the martial arts and action films of figures like Jet Li and Jackie Chan, for whom Americans..."
April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Liam
"...uses low camera angles and shapes crucifixes and authority figures, even a happy, drunken New Year's Eve celebration into..."
Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Titus
Taymor creates a spectacularly imaginative piece of Shakespearean cinema set in a world out of time.
"...see a disciplined, heroic soldier, a battered and embittered father, a crafty madman. Though he is wise in the..."
Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Robert Faires
Bliss Broyard's My Father, Dancing
"...My Father, Dancingby Bliss Broyard..."
Oct. 1, 1999 Books Review by Ada Calhoun
Piranhas
Naples' juvenile gangsters are more than mini-goodfellas
"...movie without the gangsters. This a film devoid of father figures; one gang leader has been murdered, another has..."
Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
A Fantastic Woman
Emancipation in grief in this Chilean Oscar-nominated film.
"...instructor suggests she has a pattern of seeking out father figures.) In the film’s coda, when she takes the..."
March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
The wimpy kid returns for a reboot
"...things linger for reasons unrelated to quality. First, the father figures depicted here are hardly role models for youngsters..."
