“Has it never crossed your mind, a woman of your age in a sensitive industry?†a spook berates Helen McCrory’s aviation engineer, Frankie, who has fallen for a French-Algerian student (Najib Oudghiri), 20 years her junior.    Â
“I knew you had an off switch,†snaps Frank at his robot helper in Jake Schreier’s poignant, low-budget drama, set in the near future. Frank (Frank Langella, excellent) is a former cat burglar living in seclusion.
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For a long time, bad movies were forgotten — or wished to be. Now they’re as big a deal as successes.
One-expression Jason Statham plays Parker, a deadly efficient criminal who “always follow through, always…†He has, Point Blank-style, been stitched up by his team of armed robbers, so, clearly, he’s hell-bent on revenge.    Â
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“We cross and re-cross our tracks like figure skaters,†claims Jim Broadbent’s bumbling publisher in this impenetrable adaptation of David Mitchell’s time-hopping bestseller. Various characters – played by Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant – are connected through the ages by a musical score and acts of violence.    Â
Furrowed brows and harsh whispers are the order of the day in this slick but predictable political thriller, which stars Mark Wahlberg (in one expression mode: befuddled) as Billy Taggart, a New York private eye and former cop who is taken for a ride by Russell Crowe’s corrupt mayor. Â Â Â Â
Gael GarcÃa Bernal, in his best role since Y Tu Mamá También, plays Rene, a skateboarding advertising hotshot tasked with running the 1988 “NO†campaign against General Pinochet’s vicious Chilean dictatorship.