Millions of current and former Netflix customers woke up Wednesday to an e-mail about a class-action lawsuit involving the price of online DVD rentals.
In Time In a future world in which no one ages and immortality can be bought, the poor die and the rich live forever. Justin Timberlake plays a man who decides to challenge the system, in the most effective metaphor for…
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) With producers Tony and Ridley Scott leading the charge, this is the best depiction of the Civil War I have ever seen, capturing the absolute horror of the most costly battle ever fought on…
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This 1939 Technicolor film, from Zoltan Korda, is the best of the British colonial action-adventure films – the most rousing, the most nuanced and the most emotionally satisfying. It’s also the…
Brainstorm: This late film noir, from 1965, is one brilliant, twisted movie.
Johnny English Reborn: Rowan Atkinson is a scream in this very funny (though ever so slightly long) spy spoof, with the comedian as an inept MI7 agent. Lots of laughs throughout, including a few big ones. Rated PG
Feature: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A Ballet in Two Acts” (2011), “Anti-Nazi Classics: Volume Two” (various dates), “Attack the Block” (2011), “BBC Holiday Comedy” (various dates), “BBC Holiday Drama” (various…
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This, quite simply, is the Blu-ray release of the year.
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Yes, we know George Lucas is playing Jedi mind tricks on us again, tinkering further with his landmark films and angering purists. Yes, we know that the newer “prequel” trilogy isn’t as good as…
We Were Here This film, about the AIDS crisis in San Francisco and the gay community’s response to it, is almost unbearably moving, a powerful documentary that documents this human catastrophe and the capacity of people…