The Children Act is a stirring, well-intentioned piece of classy British cinema that will satisfy but ultimately sadden its intended audience, propped up by Emma Thompson’s wonderfully complex, moving performance and strong supporting work from Fionn Whitehead (and Stanley Tucci, in a more thankles...
Sister Mary Clarence Sister Act 299 votes Disguising herself as a nun in the 1992 comedy Sister Act, this brassy lounge singer brings life, joy, and music to an ailing convent while hiding from her mobster ex-boyfriend. Her irreverent but lovable personality helps transform the lives of...
AN UNGENTLEMANLY ACT Ana Mackenzie ANARCHY RADIO Anastasiya Yevtushenko Anatole Taubman ANCHOR AND HOPE AND MRS AND THEN COME THE NIGHTJARS AND THEN I WAS FRENCH Anders Ølholm Anders Hayward Anders Rønnow Klarlund ANDERSON FALLS Andi Matichack ANDIE THE GREAT András ...
Critics Consensus: Live Flesh surveys the fallout from an act of violence with a mature melodrama that sees Pedro Almodóvar working in surprisingly restrained form. Synopsis: Victor (Liberto Rabal) goes to meet Elena (Francesca Neri) for a date. Elena, uninterested, tells Victor to leave the...
This young phenomenon has kept his act clean, selecting roles that challenge conventions and prompt conversation. His impactful performances, combined with his knack for choosing provocative projects, make him one to watch. Birthplace: London, England, UK Also ranks #2 on The Best Black Actors ...
The final act is uneven, with a hokey explanation for the killer’s motivations for wanting Maxine dead amid the palatial Hollywood hills. The showdown is a generic extravaganza where the killer’s circle of henchmen is taken down conveniently to let him and Maxine square off. ...
As a family struggles to survive in rural America during the Great Depression, their daughter’s secret affair begins a journey into the unknown. From writer/director, Asiel Norton, comes this story about the eternal laws of survival and existence, and how one act can begin the dissolution as...
Incidentally, Professor Kelp has eyes for one of his students, played by Stella Stevens, but it’s not until he transforms into Buddy that he possesses the wherewithal to act on his impulses. I’m not the biggest fan of most of Jerry Lewis’s movies – his wacky, over-the-top behavior...
The final act is uneven, with a hokey explanation for the killer’s motivations for wanting Maxine dead amid the palatial Hollywood hills. The showdown is a generic extravaganza where the killer’s circle of henchmen is taken down conveniently to let him and Maxine square off. ...
who act as though life hasn’t changed, who are putting their fellow citizens at risk, are not exercising freedom; they are displaying, as one commentator has noted,the weakness of a people who lack both the stoicism to endure the pandemic and the fortitude to defeat it. ...