Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins appears in the following:

'Lean On Pete': A Dispiriting Detour On The Way To The Glue Factory

Thursday, April 05, 2018

Writer/director Andrew Haigh (Weekend) adapts Willy Vlautin's novel about a lonely teen and the horse he loves. Under Haigh's austere direction, the film moves from melancholic to downright morose.

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'Finding Your Feet' Has A Nice Beat And Is Easy To Dance To

Thursday, March 29, 2018

A upper-middle class snob goes to live with her bohemian sister and gets drawn into the world of seniors' dance classes in this "sweet-natured if overlong" British film.

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Slack Hostage Drama '7 Days In Entebbe' Never Takes Off

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Puzzling editing choices prevent this tale of a hijacked 1976 flight from Tel Aviv to Paris from attaining any real tension or narrative momentum.

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'Columbus' Is Soulless, By Design

Thursday, August 03, 2017

This stark, cerebral not-quite-romance is set in a city known for its spare modernist architecture, and that sense of severity pervades the film.

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Love, Lust And Languor In 'From The Land Of The Moon'

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Marion Cotillard stars as a woman infatuated with infatuation in this "shadowy and sensuous" tale that undercuts its power with an unearned third-act revelation.

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Besson's Dazzling But Dull 'Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets'

Thursday, July 20, 2017

French writer-director Luc Besson mounts a hugely imaginative sci-fi spectacle, but builds it around papier-thin characters and dialogue.

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In 'A Ghost Story,' A House Is A Home For All Time

Thursday, July 06, 2017

Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star as a couple on opposite sides of a divide that should part them — but it doesn't, quite.

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'Pop Aye': A Man, An Elephant And An Amiable Amble Across Thailand

Thursday, June 29, 2017

In writer-director Kirsten Tan's first feature, an aging architect reconnects with his long-lost elephant, and the two embark upon a loosely structured, slightly surreal journey.

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A Head-To-Head Clash Of Political Wills — And Acting Styles — In Northern Ireland

Thursday, June 15, 2017

The pleasures of this imagined conversation between two real-life Northern Ireland political enemies, set in the run-up to 2006 St. Andrews Agreement, are more political/philosophical than dramatic.

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Sam Elliott Ably Plays The Sam Elliott Character In 'The Hero'

Thursday, June 08, 2017

A story of a fading cowboy-movie star and the younger woman who may lift his spirits would logically star Sam Elliott. And the ruefully comic drama The Hero does.

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Youthful Protest Gets Serious In 'Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower'

Friday, May 26, 2017

Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower tells the story of the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong in 2014. Led by then-teenager Joshua Wong, it ended with a pizza party, but provoked plenty of response.

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'Abacus': The Small Chinatown Bank That Paid A High Price

Thursday, May 18, 2017

In Abacus: Too Small To Jail, Steve James, who made Hoop Dreams, tells the story of a very small bank that really was prosecuted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

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'King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword': An Edgy Script, Dulled By CGI

Thursday, May 11, 2017

An Embarrassment of Ritchie: Charlie Hunnam stars as a hunky Arthur in a film that crackles with director Guy Ritchie's distinctive style but sinks under its bloated special effects.

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Documentary 'Last Men In Aleppo' Profiles Rescuers Amid The Rubble

Thursday, May 04, 2017

An intimate and moving examination of the White Helmets, who pull survivors — and corpses — from bombed buildings in Syria's largest city.

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'BANG! The Bert Berns Story': The Complicated Man Behind 'Twist And Shout'

Thursday, April 27, 2017

A new documentary examines the short life — and shady business practices — of the songwriter/producer behind hits like "Tell Him," "Here Comes the Night" and "Hang On Sloopy."

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A Flighty French Farce (Avec Flesh-Eating): 'Slack Bay'

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Bruno Dumont's histrionic if not particularly hysterical comedy pits rich against poor in a picturesque seaside town; the film's leisurely paced slapstick is "more intriguing than involving."

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Richard Gere Is A One-Man Social Network In 'Norman'

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Critic Mark Jenkins calls Joseph Cedar's tale of a cipher (Richard Gere) who finds himself at the center of a web of personal and political machinations "intricate, rollicking and sometimes sad."

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Anne Hathaway As A 'Colossal' Trainwreck Who Wreaks Monster-Movie Havoc

Thursday, April 06, 2017

A binge-drinking American woman unwittingly controls a monster that's destroying Seoul in this tone-deaf comedy; the film's lumbering attempts to subvert our rom-com expectations fall flat.

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A Painter, A Novelist And A Contentious Lifelong Friendship: 'Cézanne et Moi'

Thursday, March 30, 2017

It'll help to brush up on your Impressionists before seeing writer-director Danièle Thompson's decades-spanning portrait of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne, but the film deftly avoids biopic clichés.

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A Curmudgeonly Know-It-All Meets The Daughter He Doesn't: 'Wilson'

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Director Craig Johnson's film, based on the Daniel Clowes graphic novel, wants us to invest in a misanthrope's grumbling attempts to reconnect to humanity. Yet its uneven tone keeps us at a distance.

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