NEW YORK (CNS) -- Cosmology and metaphysics, both challenging enough as academic topics, don't blend well into an autobiographical film. That's the lesson of "The Theory of Everything" (Focus).With a script by Andrew McCarten -- [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Talky, pretentious and filled with existential angst when the characters aren't preoccupied with spitting curses, "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" (Fox Searchlight) is visually dazzling.Morally, though, it's dead weight.This [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Within the enchanting French Riviera setting of "Magic in the Moonlight" (Sony Pictures Classics), an age-old debate simmers between faith and reason, between a strictly rationalist standpoint and openness to divine [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A classic bit of impertinence from 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche notwithstanding, it seems that "God's Not Dead" (Freestyle).While that may be a welcome piece of news to those who were [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- What are some insights moviegoers will gain by viewing the sappy supernatural love story "Winter's Tale" (Warner Bros.)?That the souls of the deceased become stars, that everybody is destined to achieve [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Overblown but mostly harmless, the gothic actioner "I, Frankenstein" (Lionsgate) does little to offend but equally little to command audience interest. Tricked out with a surprising amount of Catholic imagery, it [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Note to self: Never take on a dark supernatural force armed only with a baseball bat; whatever it is, it's unlikely to be intimidated. We have actor Sebastian Stan to thank [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- It's an unsettling sign when a contemporary film might aptly be subtitled "Triumph of the Will" -- the moniker, of course, of Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 pro-Nazi "documentary" and a phrase that [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- For his fifth movie, reclusive filmmaker Terrence Malick takes as his subject nothing less than the universe and our place within it. A metaphysical rumination that gives free rein to the [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- For his fifth movie, reclusive filmmaker Terrence Malick takes as his subject nothing less than the universe and our place within it. A metaphysical rumination that gives free rein to the [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- With its unusual blend of the ordinary and the supernatural, not to mention its "Mad Men"-era costuming, "The Adjustment Bureau" (Universal) might suitably be subtitled "The Angel in the Gray Flannel [...]