Lou Lumenick, a native of Astoria, Queens who's been covering movies since 1981, is The Post's chief film critic. He's covered the Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and New York Film Festivals many times. Lou co-curated the Turner Classic Movies film series "Shadows of Russia'' and has appeared on the network as an on-air guest programmer. He will introduce "Design for Living'' on April 29 at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood.
Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (“Milk,’’ “J. Edgar’’) turns director for “Virginia,’’ a bravely demented semi-autobiographical drama that never lives up to the potential of its high-powered cast.Another...
May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
Sacha Baron Cohen tackles a more or less conventionally scripted fish-out-of-water/political satire/romantic comedy/raunchfest in the fitfully amusing “The Dictator.’’ It ends up being a lot less hilarious than “Borat,’...
May 16, 2012 12:00 AM
In this better-than-average tween comedy aimed at the Latino market, Cierra Ramirez makes an impression as a precocious Seattle teenager who decides she’s ready for adulthood after her private-school teacher (Patricia...
May 11, 2012 12:00 AMA pair of emotionally stunted, two-bit con men (Jason Ritter and Jake Sandvig) are forced to grow up in a hurry when parenthood is thrust upon them in Brian Crano’s very slight debut of a comedy.The kid is the 12-year...
May 11, 2012 12:00 AM
Chloe Moretz’s other movie today — besides “Dark Shadows” — is a smarmy little road movie about a Southern teenage girl losing her innocence the hard way during the Reagan era.Derick Martini’s follow-up to “Lymelife”...
May 11, 2012 12:00 AM
Not for the first time, Johnny Depp is all dressed up — this time as an elegant 19th-century vampire unleashed in 1972 — with nowhere particularly coherent to go in Tim Burton’s campy riff on the old TV soap opera “Dark...
May 11, 2012 12:00 AM
Kathleen Turner, in what’s advertised as her first lead movie role in 18 years — we’ll forget her top billing in horrors like “Baby Geniuses” and “Prince of Central Park” — demonstrates that her formidable acting chops...
May 04, 2012 12:00 AM
An excellent cast works overtime in this aggressively quirky Canadian comedy in the “Little Miss Sunshine” vein, which at least improves on writer-director Dennis Lee’s unfortunate debut feature, “Fireflies in the...
May 04, 2012 12:00 AM
What can you say about a 33-year-old Oscar nominee who stars in a rom-com tear-jerker about a nitwit dying of colon cancer? With the abysmal “A Little Bit of Heaven,’’ Kate Hudson’s possibly unprecedented losing streak...
May 04, 2012 12:00 AM
Emily Blunt brings a much-needed dose of reality — and palpable chemistry with Jason Segel — to the Judd Apatow school of raunchy screen comedy with the sweet and smart “The Five-Year Engagement.’’It might not have as...
April 27, 2012 12:00 AMThis documentary offering from the DisneyNature label resurrects some of the worst traits of the studio’s True-Life Adventures series of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, dubiously shaping some amazing footage with cornball...
April 20, 2012 12:00 AM
The rapid shrinking of the Arctic’s ice cap due to global warming “has left polar bears on thin ice,’’ narrator Meryl Streep informs us in this superficial 3-D documentary from four-decade IMAX veteran Greg MacGillivray...
April 20, 2012 12:00 AM
I really wanted to like “Darling Companion,’’ which reunites the wonderful and seldom-seen Kevin Kline with one of his best collaborators, director Lawrence Kasdan, 29 years after “The Big Chill’’ and 21 years after...
April 20, 2012 12:00 AM
You would think that after a quarter-century in development at four different studios, somebody would have figured out how to make a funny movie about the Three Stooges.After all, Moe, Larry and Curly appeared in dozens...
April 13, 2012 12:00 AMMorgan Spurlock does not appear on-screen in his latest shlockumentary. Nor does this longtime camera hog narrate. Both of which are good things, as far as I’m concerned.And as long as I’m handing out backhanded...
April 13, 2012 12:00 AM
Aside from oddities like the action spoof “Red,’’ Hollywood tends to relegate actors in their 60s, no matter how accomplished, to supporting roles. So it’s a delight to see William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini given an...
April 13, 2012 12:00 AM
Harmless if not exactly inspired, and rarely hilarious, “American Reunion’’ is the genially smutty, third big-screen sequel to the 1999 hit “American Pie,’’ bringing back virtually the entire original cast, absent from...
April 06, 2012 12:00 AM
I’m a longtime admirer of Guy Maddin, the Canadian master of retro cinema who was making stylish, black-and-white silent films long before “The Artist.’’ But I have to confess that this surreal departure by the...
April 06, 2012 12:00 AM
James Cameron’s spectacular new 3-D version of “Titanic’’ is everything I’d hoped for, and more. He judiciously — and sometimes with great subtlety — uses the technology to make a great film even greater.From the...
April 03, 2012 12:00 AM
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s “Intruders’’ looks great and has a promising opening, but this atmospheric Spanish psychological thriller is otherwise pretty underwhelming.The latest film from the director of the zombie-fest...
March 30, 2012 12:00 AM
It’s a shame that the cynical, thoroughly bogus ratings controversy being used to market “Bully’’ — more on that later — threatens to obscure the value of Lee Hirsch’s very well-meaning documentary.Following five...
March 30, 2012 12:00 AM
Small wonder there are already plans afoot for an American remake of “The Raid: Redemption,’’ Welsh-born director Gareth Evans’ eye-popping, jaw-dropping and bone-crunching action film about an Indonesian SWAT team that...
March 23, 2012 12:00 AM
Exquisitely photographed and touchingly acted by Rachel Weisz as the suicidal woman at its apex, Terence Davies’ “The Deep Blue Sea’’ turns the spotlight on a tragic romantic triangle and sexual repression in early...
March 23, 2012 12:00 AM
Nicolas Cage — winner of The Post’s Golden Turkey Award for worst actor last year — has finally reached the point of no return. After portraying an extensive gallery of homicidal oddballs (living and, more and more...
March 16, 2012 12:00 AM
‘All this randomness is leading somewhere,” insists the slovenly slacker referred to in the title of Jay and Mark Duplass’ mumblecore-inflected comedy “Jeff, Who Lives at Home.’’Where it’s all leading is not apparent...
March 16, 2012 12:00 AM
Perhaps the first fish-out-of-water comedy actually involving angling, the romantic charmer “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’’ casts Ewan McGregor as a socially maladroit UK fisheries expert recruited to realize a wealthy...
March 09, 2012 12:00 AM
Interminably long, dull and incomprehensible, “John Carter’’ evokes pretty much every sci-fi classic from the past 50 years without having any real personality of its own.You could say much the same about the title...
March 07, 2012 12:00 AMOverlong and grim to the point where some scenes are virtually unwatchable, this Australian docu-drama was inspired by a gruesome series of serial killings in a suburb of Adelaide where dismembered, rotting bodies were...
March 02, 2012 12:00 AM
Robert De Niro has been self-parodying his glory days for most of the past decade, so it’s unfortunately not surprising he would consent to get back behind the wheel of a taxi again for the maudlin “Being Flynn.’’It’s...
March 02, 2012 12:00 AM
The red carpet at the former Kodak Theatre — now the Hollywood & Highland Center — hasn’t even been rolled up, and Hollywood is already buzzing about next year’s Oscar race.Will Steven Spielberg’s long-planned “Lincoln’...
February 27, 2012 12:00 AM
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