This exuberant genre mash-up borrows from everything — westerns, musicals, heist capers, horror, Jane Austen and James Bond — to tell the story of two sisters.
Category: Movies
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‘Big George Foreman’ Review: Not the Biopic a Two-time Champ Deserves
The fictionalized film, with the boxer himself as one of its executive producers, crams a lot of events into its running time, leaving its charismatic cast on the ropes.
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‘The Restless’ Review: The Painful Cycles of Mental Illness
Joachim Lafosse’s film is an intimate but flawed portrayal of the effect a man’s bipolar disorder has on his family.
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‘Freaks vs. the Reich’ Review: Band of Others
This big-hearted, blithely odd adventure pits a troupe of superpowered circus folk against a psychic Nazi pianist.
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Three Great Documentaries to Stream
This month’s picks spend time on farms, in a courtroom and with an artist-activist.
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‘Those Who Remained’ Review: Managing Unimaginable Grief
Set in Hungary after World War II, this film concerns a doctor and a teenager seeking to fill the void left by the relatives they lost.
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‘Winter Boy’ Review: Lost and Found
In this French drama about a teenager grappling with grief, a winning cast rises above a heavy-handed script.
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‘Sisu’ Review: Sweat Wicking
A seemingly invincible former commando goes on a rampage in this blandly gratuitous World War II action movie.
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‘Clock’ Review: That Biological Ticking Is Now a Time Bomb
A woman who does not want children is pressured into changing her mind, with horrific results, in Alexis Jacknow’s fitfully scary horror movie.
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‘Broadway’ Review: Life on the Margins
Christos Massalas’s compelling debut feature follows a winsome troupe of castaways in modern Greece.
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Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild
With the release of “Renfield,” we look at 10 of the actor’s performances from the last decade that range from subdued to off the deep end.
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‘The Oak’: A Post-Communist Pinwheel
Lucian Pintilie’s newly restored mad farce, now at Film Forum, paved the way for the Romanian new wave.