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Like Father, Like Son

It's rare that a film of such power opens in U.S. theaters during January. Of course, when it comes to foreign-language films, the usual "rules" don't apply and the latest offering from Hirokazu Kore-eda has arrived in art houses following a succes...

Run Time: 2:01
U.S. Release Date: 2014-01-17
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machicko Ono, Yoko Maki, ...
Magic Mike's Last Dance

Magic Mike’s Last Dance exemplifies Hollywood’s obsession with established properties. When Steven Soderbergh released Magic Mike in 2012, it was designed as a stand-alone film with a beginning, a middle, and an end. However, its box office suc...

Run Time: 1:52
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-04-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Romance
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek Pinault, Ayub Khan Din, ...

For four years, from 1998 through 2001, I was a regular attendee at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. My sojourns began in 1998 (less than six months after I first went to the Toronto Film Festival), when I was starting to explore the ...

Negativity Alert!!!I recently read an article that touted the Sundance Film Festival (underway as I write this) as one of the world's three most important film festivals. This categorization flabbergasts me. Since when did the bigger-than-it-should...

Save the Last Dance

Save the Last Dance, a movie about finding salvation on the dance stage, takes a little Pygmalion, a little Romeo and Juliet, and a lot of formula, wraps them up with a neat bow, and delivers a passably entertaining package. The film stumbles not ...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: 2001-01-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Thomas Carter
Cast: Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas, Terry Kinney, ...
Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance? is a remake of the 1997 Japanese feature by the same name. Penned and directed by Masayuki Suo, that film was an unexpected pleasure - a feel-good feature that wasn't weighed down by the unnecessarily cloying melodrama and manipula...

Run Time: 1:38
U.S. Release Date: 2004-10-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Peter Chelsom
Cast: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, ...
Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance? proves that Japanese film makers can fashion charming, feel-good movies every bit as effective as their Hollywood counterparts. Unlike the Australian comedy, Strictly Ballroom, which used ballroom dancing competitions as arenas f...

Run Time: 2:06
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Masayuki Suo
Cast: Koji Yakusyo, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, ...
Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty is one of those self-consciously artsy motion picture that promises more than it delivers. A fascinating collage of ideas that fails to gel into a movie and collapses under the pretentious weight of the attempt, director Julia Leigh...

Run Time: 1:44
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Julia Leigh
Cast: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie

Every year, I get at least a dozen e-mails asking if I'll be attending Sundance. Some are from people hoping to meet me; others are from readers wondering if I'll be posting updates. It has been seven years since I have been to Park City and I don'...

Venom: The Last Dance

In 2018, an argument could have been made that a Venom-centric movie was sensible, preferably as a lead-in to the expected big-screen clash between the inky symbiont and his web-crawling nemesis, Spider-Man. (The previous motion picture throwdown ...

Run Time: 1:49
U.S. Release Date: 2024-10-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action
Director: Kelly Marcel
Cast: Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Alanna Ubach, ...