A wildly uneven, but ultimately pleasing piece of motion picture fluff.
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Outlandish plot derails what could have been a cute family film.
This is THE BEST of all the excellent films showing this summer at the Art Museum.
This charmer stays with you long after the credits roll.
This fast-paced British romp still ranks as one of the funniest films ever made.
Audrey Hepburn is delightful in her big screen debut.
One of the most important films of the 1950s…IMA Outdoor Film Series, June 17
The best biopic so far this year, and a triumphant directorial debut from one of our most consistently great actors.
In summer of 2014, director Richard Linklater reignited Ethan Hawke’s career, providing him with his Oscar-nominated supporting performance in Boyhood. Now, Hawke’s resurgence continues with his portrayal of jazz musician Chet Baker in Robert Budreau’s Born to be Blue – an uncompromising look at a once-promising career shattered by drug abuse. While other notable jazz performers of the 1950s suffered from drug addiction, none of their career trajectories was as disrupted as Baker’s. Over a half-century later, most of us can rattle off names like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong. Chet Baker? Now that’s another story. Only true [More]
A very good film eerily similar to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”