Nick Pinkerton

Daylight begins with a well-off European couple, Danny and pregnant wife Irene (Aidan Redmond and Alexandra Meierhans), on their way to a wedding in the country. When they wind up, after a wrong turn, waylaid and taken captive by three underclass American roughs, one fears another knockoff of Michael Haneke's......

On the heels of the turgid battling-brothers drama Warrior, Sebastian Dehnhardt's flashily edited German documentary arrives, dramatizing the stranger-than-fiction real-life story of Ukrainian-born brothers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, who as of this writing hold between them all of the four world heavyweight belts. Dehnhardt has a more challenging task than......

Promised a wonderful "5 Star Day" by his horoscope, Jake Gibson (Cam Gigandet) instead loses his job, his girlfriend, and his car in the space of 24 hours–on his birthday. This inspires Jake to travel across the country to seek out the three people born at the same hospital that......

A revenge of the have-nots playing on the clear class stratification of the luxury high-rise, Tower Heist pits lobby against penthouse. At The Tower, an exclusive Columbus Circle apartment building, top-floor investor Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) stands accused of financial malfeasance by the FBI, leaving building manager Josh Kovacs (Ben......

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare, the glover's son–turned-actor from Stratford-upon-Avon — who, due to the troublesome existence of evidence, remains the general favorite. De Vere is the protagonist of Anonymous, a work of......

Anna (Felicity Jones) is an aspiring journalist, a wee wisp of a girl come from Britain to study in Los Angeles, where she meets cute with Jacob (Anton Yelchin), a local boy learning furniture design. Like Crazy follows Anna and Jacob's whirlwind romance, then their subsequent breakups and makeups, staged......

That the Vesuvius-like eruption of Italian neo-realism altered the landscape of film history is widely agreed upon. It's less easy to come to a consensus on what "Italian neo-realism" actually was. The gist is this: In the period after liberation, a group of already established filmmakers began making movies that......

It is an unquestioned truism of recent American movies, from Marmaduke to The Descendants, that working hard at a job is tantamount to child neglect. Father of Invention brings another self-centered patriarch in for his comeuppance. Robert Axel (Kevin Spacey) was once a star "fabricator" and king of infomercials but......

Detectives Souder and Heigh (Sam Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan) are two Texas City cops investigating a string of killings whose female victims wind up dumped in a bayou inconveniently outside the police's jurisdiction. Director Ami Canaan Mann, a TV vet (and daughter of Michael), has a touch with procedural......

Once upon a time in Hong Kong, there was a man named Jackie Chan who made reckless, bounding, entertaining movies. You might squint and see that Chan in 1911, during a brief, melancholy fight scene. The rest of the time, 1911 features a diminished, earthbound Chan, now mouthing Beijing’s cant......