Nathan Gelgud

The Brothers Bloom opens Friday in select theaters Rarely does a movie with so much superfluous junk in its first act have such a clear mark of when the skippable stuff is over and where the movie should have actually begun. The Brothers Bloom should have started with this: A hungover Adrien Brody sits across […]

Sugar opens Friday in select theaters Sugar is a moving, often funny, powerfully simple story about immigration, growing up, and the detail-rich beauty of baseball. Chronicling the struggles of pitching prospect Miguel “Sugar” Santos as he moves from the Dominican Republic to stay with a family of teetotalers in rural Iowa, one of the most […]

State of Play opens Friday throughout the Triangle State of Play, directed by Kevin MacDonald (Last King of Scotland), is a jaunty, efficient journalism thriller adapted from a British miniseries. While its plot is fueled by a healthy dose of paranoia about the link between murders of Washington, D.C., citizens and the privatization of homeland […]

One Day You’ll Understand opens Friday in select theaters Veteran director Amos Gitai’s One Day You’ll Understand is about Victor, a middle-aged Parisian who is trying to find out from his mother Rivka what she and her parents experienced during the Holocaust, a question Rivka persistently evades. With varying degrees of self-consciousness or guilt, most […]

Sunshine Cleaning opens Friday in select theaters Sunshine Cleaning is a pleasant drama about Rose (Amy Adams), a maid and single mom, who coaxes her sister Norah (Emily Blunt) into helping her start her own business cleaning up crime scenes. Yesterday, before I’d seen it, I was describing what I knew of the plot to […]

Wendy and Lucy opens Friday in select theaters In Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy, Michelle Williams plays Wendy, a young woman “just passing through,” as she’s fond of putting it, a small town in Oregon. She’s on her way to Alaska, where she hopes to find work in a cannery. She’s taking the trip with […]

Che: Part I opens Friday in select theaters Che is director Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour formal masterwork about the iconic revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Che: Part I is the first half of Soderbergh’s stunner, which will be released on its own in Triangle theaters this Friday. Part II will follow, possibly as soon as next week. […]

Two Lovers opens Friday in select theaters Imagine if, in Rear Window, Jimmy Stewart had been caught by the neighbors he was spying on. Now imagine that the neighbors liked it. In a way, it would become James Gray’s self-conscious curiosity Two Lovers. In Gray’s film, when the central character looks out his bedroom window […]

Waltz With Bashir opens Friday in select theaters There’s so much to like about Waltz With Bashir that the weak elements are all the more troublesome. When the images of war and absurdity speak for themselves, they are imaginative investigations of the perplexing nature of memory and the unfathomable inhumanity of war. But the authorial […]

He’s Just Not That Into You opens today in select theaters He’s Just Not That Into You stretches a load of rom-com conventions across a half dozen stories, giving the movie the opportunity to employ a gaggle of preppy, straight, white actors and watch them joke and despair over their dates, marriages and home remodelings […]