Movies
“Asylum” deftly sets up a valid premise for a taut psychological thriller only to dissipate in a series of improbable developments and drawn-out anticlimaxes.
Aug. 12, 2005
24 Frames
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Sept. 7, 2011
“Rain” is a sensual, moody coming-of-age drama of wide implications and stunning impact that marks an important feature debut for New Zealand writer-director Christine Jeffs.
May 3, 2002
There’s a single bright spot in the otherwise dreary, uncomfortably exploitative study in degradation that is “Dark Crimes,” a Polish-British-American co-production retracing the sordid goings-on in a shuttered Krakow sex club.
May 16, 2018
The Vin Diesel vehicle ‘XXX,’ built of action- sport stunts, has adrenaline to spare. But, c’mon. Where is its sense of fun?
Aug. 9, 2002
The casting director working on Gregor Nicholas’ interracial love story “Broken English” spotted Aleksandra Vujcic, the young woman who would become the film’s co-star, in an Auckland, New Zealand, bar.
May 2, 1997
Character study, rather than suspense, shapes this private-eye tale
Sept. 7, 2001
It’s taken nearly three years for “Burn Your Maps” to receive a perfunctory theatrical release since it premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and it arrives as neither a buried treasure nor a massive folly.
June 20, 2019
Television
SUNDAY “90210’s” Shenae Grimes charms the “bah humbug” right out of her hunky new boss in the new TV movie “Christmas Incorporated.” 8 p.m.
Nov. 13, 2015
Asylum.
Jan. 18, 2004