Rob Nelson

The use of 3D scarcely deepens "Beyond the Edge," a rote run-thru of Sir Edmund Hillary's climb to the peak of Mount Everest 60 years ago. Narration mentions that the...

Grungy, witty and savage, the Russian crime thriller "Break Loose" entertains despite its ludicrously repetitive action and cliched story of the impossible love between a special forces cop and a...

Shamelessly sentimental but tough to resist, "The Finishers" follows a differently abled teen and his dad in their efforts to train for and compete in a triathlon together, the father...

Plenty serviceable as a belated documentary addendum to "Rocky," director Jesse James Miller's bio of '80s-era World Boxing Council lightweight champ Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini connects on emotional levels in...

Demanding and deeply rewarding, "The Last of the Unjust" finds veteran documentarian Claude Lanzmann turning for the fourth time to outtakes from his monumental "Shoah"; here, he draws extensively from...

Grimmer as it goes, "Feng shui" begins as a black comedy about a wife's hilariously extreme intolerance of her milquetoast hubby before segueing into a sacrificial-mom meller a la "Stella...

Grimmer as it goes, "Feng shui" begins as a black comedy about a wife's hilariously extreme intolerance of her milquetoast hubby before segueing into a sacrificial-mom meller a la "Stella...

Less inferno than slow burn, Rob Zombie's retro witch thriller "The Lords of Salem" has plenty of portent but not much payoff. Likely to disappoint die-hard fans of "The Devil's...

Played at full tilt by co-screenwriter Heather Wahlquist, the pill-popping woman under the influence in Nick Cassavetes' "Yellow" has to be the most well-toned, alluringly clad and catwalk-worthy substitute teacher...

Less inferno than slow burn, Rob Zombie's retro witch thriller "The Lords of Salem" has plenty of portent but not much payoff. Likely to disappoint die-hard fans of "The Devil's...