Movies to see this weekend, Dec. 14 Killing Them Softly Brad Pitt stars as a hit man who has come to town to straighten out a crisis of confidence within a gambling community, in a clever, dramatic and yet often very funny crime drama with parallels to the 2008 financial crisis.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 11 Kino Classics Remastered” (1972), “Beloved” (2011), “The Bourne Legacy” (2012), “Collision Earth” (2011), “Darken” (2012), “Doomsday Book” (2012), “Dreams of a Life” (2011), “Following” (1999), “Gangsters, Guns and Zombies” (2012), “Hemo” (2010), “Kill ‘Em All” (2012), “Mansome” (2012), “Miami Connection” (1987), “Mr. Bricks” (2011), “Night Claws” (2012), “Osombie …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 7 Never Sorry Alison Klayman’s portrait of China’s most famous and fractious contemporary artist sketches the spectrum of his art and political activism, and the troubles and global sympathy they have brought him
What movies to see this week, Dec. 7 Lincoln An amazing film from Steven Spielberg featuring one of the year’s best performances, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, working every possible angle to pass the 13th Amendment in the waning days of the Civil War. Holy Motors The latest unclassifiable film from the eccentric French director Leos Carax follows a man as he drives around in a …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Nov. 27 Feature: The Apparition (2012), Burning in the Sun (2010), Burning Man (2011), Cartel War (2010), Christmas in Compton (2012), Compañeros de Lucha (2011), The Day (2011), The Experiment: The One-Man Show Starring Gary Saderup (2012), Men in Black 3 (to be released Friday) (2012), ParaNorman (2012), Rites of Spring (2011), Sparkle (to be released Friday) (2012 …
Movies opening this week, Nov. 23 The Big Picture It’s good to be Paul (Romain Duris), a partner in an elite Paris law firm who has a beautiful wife, Sarah, and adorable kids
Movies to see this weekend, Nov. 21 The Sessions John Hawkes plays a polio victim who can’t move his arms or legs but wants to experience sex for the first time, so he hires therapist Helen Hunt in this well-acted, humane and sexually explicit drama. A Royal Affair This fascinating story, straight out of Danish history, is about a doctor who ends up dictating Denmark’s politics through the …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Nov. 20 Movie Collection” (various dates), “Another Kind” (2011), “Backslasher” (2012), “Black Magic” (1949), “Bringing Up Bobby” (2011), “The Captain’s Table” (1959), “Cinderella” (1950), “Cinderella II & Cinderella III” (2002, ’07), “Dragons: When Horror Came to Shochiku” (various dates), “The Expendables 2” (2012), “Eyewitness” (1956), “Gingerdead Man Trilogy Box Set …
Blu-ray review: ‘Umberto D.’ Umberto D. One of the masterpieces of world cinema – and a supreme example of Italian neorealism at its very best – Vittorio De Sica’s 1952 classic is now available in pristine Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection. Battisti (who died in 1977 at age 94) achieved screen immortality on the basis of a single film