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“Speed Racer” sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.
“Surfwise” has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but it’s an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.
The ingredients of the Indian director Santosh Sivan’s period piece “Before the Rains” may be awfully familiar, but the film lends them the force of tragedy.
“What Happens in Vegas,” one of those junky time-wasters that routinely pop up in movie theaters, won’t make you laugh much or at all.
Viewed as the sum of its sad incidents, “The Tracey Fragments” seems like the kind of adolescent melodrama that has become a staple of young-adult literature.
“Turn the River” is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working-class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules.
The real surprise of “Frontier(s)” is that this creepy, bloody contemporary gross-out also has some ideas, visual and otherwise, wedged among its sanguineous drips.
The hero of “OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies” might be described as a French equivalent of James Bond.
“Noise,” the second part of a projected “fanatic trilogy,” is shallow and loud.
Shot piecemeal over the course of four years on locations in 18 countries, “The Fall” is a genuine labor of love — and a real bore.
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