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[ad_1] “Firebird” is a swooningly romantic love story, clearly influenced and inspired by films like “Brokeback Mountain,” with themes of forbidden love in an ultra-masculine setting. It also draws from…

[ad_1] Unfortunately, in “Hatching,” the horrors of growing up—and more specifically of being raised by insensitive, repressed parents—are otherwise not that disturbing or even memorable. Bergholm (who has a story…

[ad_1] The time around, Neeson plays Alex Lewis, another expert hired killer with a particular set of skills. As this film opens, he’s considering leaving the life behind after seeing…

[ad_1]             Then f**ks: and then fights             Then judging chaps’ rights Then sitting in slippers; then drooling. Boy, it always ends the same way, doesn’t it. And then again,…

[ad_1] But while the above makes “The Survivor” sound like a sports movie with an element of Holocaust lament (and it definitely is that), what Levinson and screenwriter Justine Juel Gillmer…

[ad_1] The title is an enigma, creating an uneasy miasma over the whole proceedings. On the wall hangs a sepia-toned photograph of Victorian-era explorer Henry Morton Stanley (of “Dr. Livingstone,…

[ad_1] The movie is based on a true, and indeed peculiar caper: the 1961 theft from the National Gallery of a Goya portrait, painted around 1812, of the Duke of…

[ad_1] After a relatively brief background on Navalny (that, to Roher’s credit, challenges some of the politician’s previous allegiances with nationalist causes) and how he became such an enemy of Putin…

[ad_1] This opening scene of “The Bad Guys” is its strongest, and it offers great promise. But the wise-cracking, fast-talking energy that was once so buoyant grows increasingly strained as…

[ad_1] Though when the kid first makes this intense quip, we aren’t quite acquainted with the rascal’s irresistibly witty ways yet, a disposition that often injects the picture with moments…