Though the low-key musical “Becks” packs a lot into its first four minutes — including a cross-country move, a breakup and a drive halfway back across the States — it spends the rest of its time leisurely exploring the titular character’s return to her hometown of St. Louis. It’s all set to an...

In 1921, Louis Sonney, having single-handedly captured bandit Roy Gardner, "the most hunted man in Pacific Coast history," played himself in a film called “Crime Doesn’t Pay” and toured the nation with it on the Pantages vaudeville circuit. In 1955, Congressional Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy,..

“Bomb City” just keeps on having its Caucasian adolescents scream into the ether until you get it: angry middle-American teenagers are all not alike! First-time feature director Jameson Brooks’ overwrought indie melodrama turns a real-life case from 1997 of white-on-white violence between combat-bo..

What happens if you find yourself falling for the sister you never knew you had? What if she’s not really your sister? What if she may not really exist at all? Those are just a few of the thought bubbles floated in “Entanglement,” an offbeat, slow-gelling comedy that creeps up on you in deceptively...

Its subject may seem an unlikely choice for epic movie treatment, but “Padman,” inspired by the true story of activist Arunachalam Muruganantham’s mission to bring affordable sanitary pads to the female masses of India, proves quite the entertaining, daresay absorbing, movie. How the title characte..

This being 2018, I suppose it’s only to be expected that Peter Rabbit should try to sodomize the farmer with a carrot. Fortunately for Mr. McGregor (played by Sam Neill), to say nothing of the carrot, the ruse doesn’t succeed. Unfortunately for Mr. McGregor, it doesn’t matter: He will soon keel...

Re-creating the experience of being stuck at a party filled with terrible people — without any free drinks — “The Next Big Thing” is 84 minutes of unpleasantness. This comedy is populated by terrible characters, whose only saving grace is that they aren’t real people (nor do they feel like real...

Director, star and co-writer Whitney Cummings picks “The Female Brain” for her directorial debut, adapting Louann Brizendine’s pop science book with Neal Brennan, who co-stars. The film (and book) uses evolutionary biology to dissect the cultural stereotypes and assumptions about the way women...

The woman's tone is calm, measured, decisive, someone who knows what she thinks and no longer cares — if she ever did — what those on the other side may believe. "I live in a war zone every day," she says. "There is a war on women. It's real, it can be very ugly. Women depend on me to be ..