Friday, March 28, 2014

On My Way, Jodorowsky's Dune, The Missing Picture, Anita, Blood Ties, Enemy


On My Way
 
The Missing Picture



Jodorowsky's Dune


Anita
Enemy


Blood Ties



Capsules on the week's new films, most of them worth seeing:

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Ernest & Celestine, Generation War, The Lunchbox

Generation War
Ernest & Celestine


The Lunchbox

Between the insufferable works of Sylvain Chomet ("The Triplets of Belleville," "The Illusionist") and the (no pun intended) overbearing "Ernest & Celestine," I'm beginning to think I hate French animated features.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

In Secret





There's a surprising amount of blood coursing through the veins of "In Secret," director Charlie Stratton's film of the Émile Zola novel Thérѐse Raquin.

Omar





One of the five nominees for this year's foreign language Oscar, the Palestinian "Omar" stars Adam Bakri as the title character, a baker we first see scaling a tall separation wall to see his secret girlfriend, Nadja (Leem Lubany), sister of Tarek (Eyad Hourani), his best friend since childhood.