Jean Rochefort

The 2013 Summer Movie Preview is a snapshot of films opening through the end of August. Release dates (for Los Angeles) and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Sneaks list: In the...

The sequels and franchise flicks scored big last summer, so what do we get? More of the same this year. Check out the titles, and you might conclude that this is the year of the colon. But don't be fooled by the amount of noise generated by the highest-...

The road not taken winds through every life. In the low-key French drama "The Man on the Train," it winds from the train station where a stranger disembarks one early evening to the squeaking gate behind which another man waits for something to happen....

Patrice Leconte's "Intimate Strangers" opens with the brisk economy of a film made by a master screen storyteller. A beautiful but distraught-looking young woman (Sandrine Bonnaire) enters a fine old Paris building. Its concierge, who has been wrapped...

Against the Ropes Boxing manager Jackie Kallen is the real-life inspiration for this fictional story of a fighter (Omar Epps) and his handler (Meg Ryan). With Tony Shalhoub, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington. Directed by Charles S. Dutton. Paramount, March...

Friday December 6, 1996      Formidably insincere, obsessed with appearances and armed with well-developed systems of humiliation, the 18th century milieu of "Ridicule" sounds a lot like today's Hollywood, with a key difference: the joy taken in language...