"Kidnap" is a tightly-directed and economically-written film about a woman following a car when her son is abducted by its drivers. The movie is so intense that it was mercifully only 81 minutes long. "Kidnap" is essentially a film that is (spoiler alert!) one big car [..]

Independent movie director John Curran ("The Painted Veil" 2006) has made an even-handed and unbiased look at the 1969 incident where Sen. Edward Kennedy drove his car into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, killing 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. Australian actor Jason Clarke was more than [..]

"The Wife" features Glenn Close in the title role as a woman reflecting on her life as she travels to Sweden with her husband as he is set to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Layer after layer of her story is revealed in this tour-de-force of [..]

Agatha Christie's 1949 novel "Crooked House" has been made into a watchable motion picture starring Glenn Close as a senior member of a dysfunctional wealthy family in England. Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner ("Pretty Things" 2001). who also co-wrote the screenplay with Julian Fellowes and Tim Rose Price, kept [..]

"The Tribes of Palos Verdes" is an interesting story of a couple who move from Michigan to affluent Palos Verdes in Southern California with their two teenage children, drama proceeding from there. Directors Emmet Malloy and Brendan Malloy, brothers known as "The Malloys" who directed [..]

"Just Getting Started" is a predictable and formula comedy about an ex-mob lawyer and a retired FBI agent who must put aside their decades-old feud when they find themselves living in the same Palm Springs retirement community. This picture seems to have a [..]

"An Uncommon Grace" is the story of a U. S. Army nurse returning to her grandmother's home in Ohio, where she gets involved with an Amish man and is pulled into a murder mystery. David MacKay smoothly directed this made-for-television film for the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries [..]

"Last Flag Flying" is the poignant story of three Vietnam veteran friends reuniting after one of their sons is killed in the Iraq War. Director Richard Linklater ("Me and Orson Welles" 2008) expertly put together this film which looks at the effects of war from different points [..]

"The Book of Henry" is an inspiring and uplifting story about an 11-year-old boy dying of cancer who leaves detailed instructions to his mother to help a neighbor girl suffering from abuse. Director Colin Treverrow, who was at the helm of the blockbuster "Jurrasic World" of 2015, [..]

Tom Cruise stars in "America Made," the true story of a commercial airline pilot who becomes a drug smuggler for a major cartel, only to be caught, convicted, and forced into becoming an informant for the DEA. This engrossing film was directed with laser-like precision by Doug [..]