Joe Leydon

An attention-grabbing, potentially profile-elevating performance by up-and-comer Hunter Page-Lochard is the major selling point of "Around the Block," an Aussie variation of the oft-spun scenario about an at-risk high-schooler who...

Despite the familiarity of its tale about recriminations, revelations and reconciliations during a family gathering for a funeral, "Rock the Casbah" is consistently engaging and frequently amusing, largely due to...

Yet another iteration of a sentimental scenario that already was whiskery way back when Charlie Chaplin served as father figure for "The Kid," "Instructions Not Included" is a sporadically amusing...

Despite attaining smash-hit status in its homeland -- where its tale of sleeper North Korean agents biding time in a South Korean backwater doubtless has special resonance for local ticketbuyers...

Once you get past an incredibly self-indulgent intro -- an uncomfortably long mash-up of comedy sketch and road-trip-with-entourage doc that seems simultaneously apologetic and arrogant -- you can enjoy approximately...

Even though viscera and vital organs are tossed about as usual, and yet another bunch of luckless supporting characters are ripped apart like so much warm bread, there's something curiously...

Agreeably amusing but unduly extended, "Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola" suggests what might have resulted had Rodgers and Hammerstein lived long enough to attempt a Broadway musical about the Occupy...

If you listen closely enough while things go bump in the night during "The Apparition," you might also hear the scraping of barrel bottoms. This enervating muddle of paranormal nonsense...

If you listen closely enough while things go bump in the night during "The Apparition," you might also hear the scraping of barrel bottoms. This enervating muddle of paranormal nonsense...

Even when the plot takes a jarringly melodramatic turn in the second half, Homi Adajania's comedy of manners "Cocktail" maintains an infectious air of kicky exuberance that's bound to delight...