Pamela Anderson stars as Shelly, a Vegas showgirl facing her final curtain call.
Directed by Gia Coppola (“Palo Alto”) from a script by Kate Gersten, “The Last Showgirl” tells a familiar story of bad luck and outwardly questionable choices with gentleness, a great deal of love for its characters and an obvious appreciation for the affirming highs and bitter lows that age and beauty afford. Modestly scaled and loosely plotted, it is an unusually tender movie and an ideal vehicle for Coppola’s gift for expressing the intangible and the ephemeral.
In theaters. Read the full review.
A diamond heist in the rough.
In this sequel, Big Nick (Gerard Butler) teams up with the expert thief Donnie Wilson (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) to rob the World Diamond Center.
From our review:
Nick and Donnie’s sudden friendship gives the writer-director Christian Gudegast’s film a shaggy hangout movie feel not unlike “Fast & Furious” (2009). Cop and robber party together, share their pained back stories and unoriginal jokes about French cuisine and evade a local police squad known as Pantera. … “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera” isn’t groundbreaking, but it delivers what it promises: lovable scoundrels trading bullets and traversing borders.
In theaters. Read the full review.
An elite agent, a second-rate thriller.
Franck (Guillaume Canet), a former elite agent, must rescue his wife from a group of mysterious armed men.
From our review:
“Ad Vitam,” directed by Rodolphe Lauga, is torn between allegiances. The film tries to emulate its peers’ lean, gritty formula but can’t resist sneaking in glamour locations like the Sacré-Coeur Basilica and Versailles. The minimal plot purports to endorse spartan storytelling but after a promising start the movie detours into an overlong flashback. This may be to give Franck emotional weight, but it only creates belly fat.
In theaters. Read the full review.
An elite agent, a second-rate thriller.
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