In this too-little and yet too-much slice of TV-ready cringe comedy, Ricky Gervais catches up with his unctuous “The Office” character, who’s trying to fulfill his rock-star dreams but just keeps digging deeper holes.
This striking, powerful and up-to-the-minute documentary about sex trafficking on the website Backpage enlists a deep bench of heavy-hitting politicos, journalists, victims and advocates to make its moral message.
Instead of telling a single feature-length story about one of the worst terrorist attacks in American history, this clear-eyed, “Frontline”-ish documentary sketches out the latticework of paranoia and hate that led up to it.
James Franco plays a gay-rights activist turned anti-gay Christian preacher in Justin Kelly’s thoughtful and searching but somewhat rootless drama based on a true story.
Jim Jarmusch’s elegantly minimal and wryly comic study of Adam Driver’s bus driver-poet celebrates and exemplifies a sturdy American vision of art as labor.
Bryan Cranston and James Franco valiantly but fruitlessly give their all in this overprotective-dad comedy that is many times more conventional than it pretends to be.
Gael García Bernal plays a make-believe police inspector hunting fugitive poet and politician Pablo Neruda during Chile’s 1948 right-wing crackdown in Pablo Larraín’s handsome, thoughtful and wisecracking metafictional lark.
Isabelle Huppert astonishes yet again as a teacher of philosophy who has to reinvent her life just when most people would be thinking of retiring in this steely, beautiful, intellectually hungry story from Mia Hansen-Løve.
