New on DVD and Blu-ray, Jan. 4 Cosmopolis This latest from David Cronenberg, based on a novel by Don DeLillo, follows a 28-year-old billionaire through a dystopian urban landscape of his own creation, in this intermittently imaginative and yet ultimately disappointing film.
Movies to see this weekend, Dec. 28 Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western, about an escaped slave (Jamie Foxx) who teams up with a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to rescue his wife from an evil plantation lord (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the most consistently entertaining film of the year, full of dazzling dialogue, imaginative story turns and moments of high tension. Sulley, the …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 28 Arbitrage In writer-director Nicholas Jarecki’s smooth, snooze-inducing anti-thriller – about a high-finance magnate whose cushy life is threatened – an exceedingly dapper Richard Gere appears in nice suits and handsome close-ups that serve no purpose other than to remind us how exceedingly dapper Richard Gere looks in nice suits and handsome close-ups. Killer Joe …
Movies opening this week, Dec. 21 Enter a cinematic sphere where a young couple search for each other through mystical worlds. Citadel Tommy and his pregnant wife’s joy shrivels into despair when she’s savagely attacked by a gang of hooded kids.
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. 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
New movies opening Dec. 9 Any Day Now The Central Park Five The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Hyde Park on Hudson The Matchmaker
Movies opening Friday, Dec. 7 Generation P This screen adaptation of a Russian novel traces the advent of advertising as the Soviet era crumbles in the 1990s
What movies to see this week, Nov. 30 Chasing Ice This documentary presents striking visual evidence of global warming in the form of time-lapse photography sequences of glaciers melting and breaking up