How To Make Love Like An Englishman trivializes so many serious issues, it should be called A Morons Guide To The Real World. (Read the full review here).
Opens August 21. See listings.
Rating: N (SGC)
Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine director Alex Gibney might be the only documentarian to tackle two uniquely American cults in the same calendar year. Earlier this spring, Gibney released Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, and now theres Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine, in which Gibney unpacks the life and mythology of the Apple visionary and finds him to be a technical innovator who left a lot to be desired as a human being. (Read the full review here).
Opens August 21. See listings.
Rating: NNN (NW)
Being Evel profiles iconic daredevil Evel Knievel, who jumped over 19 cars on his Harley-Davidson, held the Guinness world record for most broken bones in a lifetime, and got charged with battery in 1995 for assaulting his girlfriend Krystal Kennedy. That last bit goes unmentioned, perhaps because the film already has too much dirt on the venomous, womanizing stuntman it’s supposedly paying tribute to. (Read the full review here).
Opens August 21. See listings.
Rating: NNN (RS)
Bang Bang Baby is a stylish film that shows off writer/director St. Jules’s geeky appreciation of a certain type of period movie. It’s 1963 in the small Canadian town of Lonely Arms, and Stepphy (Jane Levy) is a high school student/aspiring singer whose dreams of entering a New York talent competition are thwarted because she has to look after her drunken dad… (Read the full review here).
Opens August 21. See listings.
Rating: NNN (GS)
The Amina Profile is a taut documentary that begins with a hot online affair between Montrealer Sandra Bagaria and the mysterious Amina, author of the blog Gay Girl In Damascus, an online property that then blows up thanks to a story in the Guardian. (Read the full review here).
Opens August 21. See listings.
Rating:NNNN (SGC)
Fort Tilden starts out like every other American indie production about 20-something urbanites. Harper and Allie (Bridey Elliott, Clare McNulty) are roommates in Williamsburg who live in oblivious privilege. (Read the full review here).
Opens August 21. See listings.
Rating: NNNN (NW)
Charlie’s Country reunites legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil and his Ten Canoes director, de Heer, for a more grounded drama about an aging Aboriginal who decides to leave his community and live by “the old ways,” only to find himself drifting into increasingly unpleasant situations. (Read the full review here).
Opens August 21. See listings.
Rating: NNNN (NW)
Mistress America is another quietly frantic comedy from Baumbach and his Frances Ha co-writer/star, Gerwig, who once again plays a New Yorker teetering on the verge of success or collapse. Slightly adrift at college in Manhattan, Tracy (Lola Kirke) gets in touch with Gerwig’s Brooke, who’s trying to launch a restaurant. (Read the full review here).
Opens August 21. See listings.
Rating:NNNN (NW)
